Ec-static Existences: The Poetics and Politics of Non-Belonging in Sasha Marianna Salzmann’s 'Außer Sich' (2017)
This article examines the work of contemporary German-Jewish writer Sasha Marianna Salzmann through the framework of Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of minority. Focusing on Salzmann’s debut novel 'Außer Sich', I investigate how the text complicates ideas of familial, national, linguistic an...
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| description | This article examines the work of contemporary German-Jewish writer Sasha Marianna Salzmann through the framework of Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of minority. Focusing on Salzmann’s debut novel 'Außer Sich', I investigate how the text complicates ideas of familial, national, linguistic and gendered belonging, which results in a fundamental deconstruction of the very concept and possibility of belonging. I argue that the framework provided by Deleuze and Guattari needs to be extended in Salzmann’s case, by bringing it together with Judith Butler’s thoughts on the “ec-static” character of the self and interpersonal relationships. Based on Butler’s notion of ec-stasy, I demonstrate how Salzmann’s text develops an innovative politics and poetics of non-belonging, which connects their writing with a broader “postmigrant” trajectory. Apart from helping us question facile conceptions of belonging, Salzmann’s work thus also enables us to shift our current understanding of the cultural location of German-Jewish writing. Tweetable Abstract: This paper examines minority and ec-stasy in Salzmann’s debut novel 'Außer Sich', staking out these concepts’ innovative politics and poetics of non-belonging. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-396f42b626a4442ba639fdea1afd968b2022-12-21T19:40:32ZcatLiverpool University PressModern Languages Open2052-53972020-06-01110.3828/mlo.v0i0.284183Ec-static Existences: The Poetics and Politics of Non-Belonging in Sasha Marianna Salzmann’s 'Außer Sich' (2017)Maria Roca Lizarazu0University of BirminghamThis article examines the work of contemporary German-Jewish writer Sasha Marianna Salzmann through the framework of Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of minority. Focusing on Salzmann’s debut novel 'Außer Sich', I investigate how the text complicates ideas of familial, national, linguistic and gendered belonging, which results in a fundamental deconstruction of the very concept and possibility of belonging. I argue that the framework provided by Deleuze and Guattari needs to be extended in Salzmann’s case, by bringing it together with Judith Butler’s thoughts on the “ec-static” character of the self and interpersonal relationships. Based on Butler’s notion of ec-stasy, I demonstrate how Salzmann’s text develops an innovative politics and poetics of non-belonging, which connects their writing with a broader “postmigrant” trajectory. Apart from helping us question facile conceptions of belonging, Salzmann’s work thus also enables us to shift our current understanding of the cultural location of German-Jewish writing. Tweetable Abstract: This paper examines minority and ec-stasy in Salzmann’s debut novel 'Außer Sich', staking out these concepts’ innovative politics and poetics of non-belonging.https://www.modernlanguagesopen.org/articles/284 |
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| title | Ec-static Existences: The Poetics and Politics of Non-Belonging in Sasha Marianna Salzmann’s 'Außer Sich' (2017) |
| title_full | Ec-static Existences: The Poetics and Politics of Non-Belonging in Sasha Marianna Salzmann’s 'Außer Sich' (2017) |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Ec-static Existences: The Poetics and Politics of Non-Belonging in Sasha Marianna Salzmann’s 'Außer Sich' (2017) |
| title_short | Ec-static Existences: The Poetics and Politics of Non-Belonging in Sasha Marianna Salzmann’s 'Außer Sich' (2017) |
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