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...
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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, examining how the writers under discussion c
Frontcover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Developing a Nomadic Ethics; 1: Seeing Strangely: Birgit Vanderbeke's Ways of Knowing; 2: Creature Comforts: Economadism in the Work of Dorothea Grünzweig; 3: Disorientations: Queer, East German Nomadism in the Work of Antje Rávic Strubel; 4: Uncanny Returns: Anna Mitgutsch's Austrian Nomadic Postmemory; 5: Facing the Other: Barbara Honigmann and Jewish Nomadic Ethics; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Backcover;
