Nomadic Ethics in Contemporary Women's Writing in German

Strange Subjects
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-57113-536-0
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 129, 232 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Explores nationality, gender, and postmodern subjectivity in the work of five German-speaking women writers who embody a "nomadic ethics."

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jeremiah, Emily

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Postmoderne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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
Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Jeremiah, Emily
Emily Jeremiah is Lecturer in German, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Emily Jeremiah is Lecturer in German, Royal Holloway, University of London.