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Conclusion: das war es

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2009

Stephanie Bird
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University College London
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[E]s klaffte etwas zwischen Jordan und Franza, und was klaffte, wollte sie schließen.

(Bachmann, ‘Todesartenii, 242)

(Something gaped open between Jordan and Franza and she wanted to close the rift.)

[M]eine Geschichten sind wahr. Sie haben den Vorzug dieser Unvollkommenheit.

(Bachmann, ‘Todesarteni, 365)

(My stories are true. They have the advantage of such imperfection.)

[Jung] beobachtet jeden zuende, man kann aber jemanden nicht zuende beobachten und deswegen nicht zuende beschreiben.

(Bachmann, ‘Todesarteni, 365)

(Jung observes everyone totally, but it is not possible to observe someone totally and therefore not possible to describe them totally.)

Das Judasschaf dreht sich um und führt die Herde unfehlbar und klar auf eine Plattform … um Ecken herum; die Schafe folgen und kommen so schließlich bei einer Tür an. Das Judasschaf tritt jetzt zur Seite, die anderen Schafe gehen durch die Tür und werden sofort betäubt, aufgehängt undsoweiter.

(Duden, Das Judasschaf, 56. My italics.)

(The Judas sheep turns round and unerringly and clearly leads the herd to a platform, and around corners. The sheep follow and so finally come to a door. The Judas sheep now steps aside, the other sheep go through the door and are immediately numbed, hung up and so on.)

Ich habe es euch doch gesagt, ich habe soviel Blödsinn wie alle Toten.

(Özdamar, 1993: 118)

(I've already told you, I've got as much nonsense as all dead people.)

It is only when the sovereign incalculability of the subject is acknowledged that perceptions of difference will no longer nourish demands for the surrender of difference to processes of ‘homogenization’, ‘purification’, or any of the other crimes against otherness with which the rise of racism has begun to acquaint us.

(Copjec, Read My Desire, 208)
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Women Writers and National Identity
Bachmann, Duden, Özdamar
, pp. 217 - 219
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2003

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  • Conclusion: das war es
  • Stephanie Bird, University College London
  • Book: Women Writers and National Identity
  • Online publication: 22 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485732.009
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  • Conclusion: das war es
  • Stephanie Bird, University College London
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  • Conclusion: das war es
  • Stephanie Bird, University College London
  • Book: Women Writers and National Identity
  • Online publication: 22 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485732.009
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