Revisiting early narratives of mobility in Turkish German literature and contextualize them within the history of the E-Road network. Transnational authors find themselves in a position to redefine travel literature and their road narratives become a site of the gothic and the grotesque, giving rise to ghosts that haunt the guest worker. In revealing the ghosts and wars embedded in technologies of transportation, their works conceptualize the very notion of transmission as a process that is always open to ruptures and accidents.
Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies