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Translating Heimat In Multilingual Dortmund, Kristin Dickinson
Translating Heimat In Multilingual Dortmund, Kristin Dickinson
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Named for the people of 132 different nationalities photojournalist Peyman Azhari encountered in northern Dortmund over the course of a year, the photo collection Heimat 132 (2014) stands as testament to the many ethnicities, religions, and languages this neighborhood is home to. In my paper, I read Azhari’s photographs as sites of translation capable of reclaiming a critical understanding of Heimat (home or homeland) that is fundamentally multilingual. I do so by first exploring the link between racially and ethnically exclusionary definitions of Heimat and the all-too-common assertion that Heimat is an untranslatable word. Each approach, I argue, rests on …
Nora M. Alter And Timothy Corrigan. Essays On The Essay Film. Columbia Up, 2017., Angelica Fenner
Nora M. Alter And Timothy Corrigan. Essays On The Essay Film. Columbia Up, 2017., Angelica Fenner
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Nora M. Alter and Timothy Corrigan. Essays on the Essay Film. Columbia UP, 2017. 371 pp.