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9781571138385
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How can postmodern subjectivity be ethically conceived? What can literature contribute to this project? What role do 'gender' and 'nation' play in the construction of contemporary identities? 'Nomadic Ethics' broaches these questions, exploring the work of five women writers who live outside of the German-speaking countries or thematize a move away from them: Birgit Vanderbeke, Dorothea Grünzweig, Antje Rávic Strubel, Anna Mitgutsch, and Barbara Honigmann. It draws on work by Rosi Braidotti, Sara Ahmed, and Judith Butler to develop a nomadic ethics, and examines how the writers under discussion conceptualize contemporary German and Austrian identities - especially but not only gender identities - in instructive ways. The book engages with a number of critical issues in contemporary German studies: globalization; green thought; questions of gender and sexuality; East (and West) German identities; Austrianness; the postmemory of the Holocaust; and Jewishness. In this way, 'Nomadic Ethics' offers a valuable contribution to debates about the nature of German studies itself, as well as insightful readings of the individual authors and texts concerned. Emily Jeremiah is Lecturer in German, Royal Holloway, University of London
Content:
Introduction: developing a nomadic ethics -- Seeing strangely: Birgit Vanderbeke's ways of knowing -- Creature comforts: economadism in the work of Dorothea Grünzweig -- Disorientations: queer, East German nomadism in the work of Antje Rávic Strubel -- Uncanny returns: Anna Mitgutsch's Austrian nomadic postmemory -- Facing the other: Barbara Honigmann and Jewish nomadic ethics
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781571135360
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Print version ISBN 9781571135360
Language:
English
Keywords:
Vanderbeke, Birgit 1956-2021
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Grünzweig, Dorothea 1952-
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Strubel, Antje Rávik 1974-
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Mitgutsch, Anna 1948-
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Honigmann, Barbara 1949-
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Frauenliteratur
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Identität
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Ethik
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