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 Grunzweig, Antje Ravic 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...
How can postmodern subjectivity be ethically conceived? What can literature contribute to this project? What role do -gender- and -nation- play in the...