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VOLUME 14, ISSUE 2, 2024

BORDERLANDS

Elizabeth Sun, Managing Editor

Kayla Rose van Kooten & Sean Lambert, Co-Managing Editors

FOREWORD

Foreword by the Managing Editor

by Elizabeth Sun

FEATURE ARTICLES

“With whose blood were my eyes crafted?” Critical Concepts of Seeing, Knowing, and Remembering in Philip Scheffner’s and Merle Kröger’s Havarie (2016)”

by Roy Grundmann

“Narratives and Counternarratives of German Borderscapes in Olivia Wenzel’s 1000 Serpentinen Angst”

by Dora Rusciano

FEATURE TRANSLATIONS AND CRITICAL INTRODUCTIONS

“The Cousin”

by Nava Ebrahimi

translator’s introduction by Kelsi Morefield

“A Second Attack”

by Çetin Gültekin and Mutlu Koçak

translator’s introduction by Elizabeth Sun

Songs of the Refugees

by Irmgard Keun

translator’s introduction by Anna Lynn Dolman

“Cohesion Without Coherence: Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Form” Commentary On:

I was received by the city as I stepped into the world again

by Hannes Bajohr

translator’s introduction by Kayla Rose van Kooten

CONTRIBUTE

To be considered for Volume 15, Issue 1 on Words and Lives in Transit, please view our CfP here and submit your article or proposal by May 15, 2025 to our eScholarship submissions portal. We accept submissions for translations, book reviews, and articles year-round.

Volumes

Volume 14.2 Borderlands

Volume 14.1 Borderlands

Volume 13.2 Archival Engagements

Special Issue: Homeland

Volume 13.1 Traveling Forms

Volume 12.2 Landscapes of Migration

Volume 12.1 Landscapes of Migration

Volume 11.2 Reflections on a Changing Europe

Volume 11.1 Reflections on a Changing Europe

Volume 10.2 The Future of the Past

Volume 10.1 The Digital German Humanities & Barriers

Volume 9.2 Contemporary Remediations

Volume 9.1 Das neue Deutschland

Volume 8.2 Participatory Media and Public Memory

Volume 8.1 Open Forum

Volume 7 Cosmopolitical and Transnational Interventions

Volume 6 TRANSIT at the GSA

Volume 5 Translingual Encounters

Volume 4 Multicultural Europe

Volume 3 Changing Communities

Volume 2 Translation and Mobility

Volume 1 Migration, Culture, and the Nation State

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