Paradoxical Corpographies

Paradoxical Corpographies: Towards an Ethics of Inscription proposes an answer to this question through a contrapuntal reading of theoretical reflections on inscription and of late postmodern texts from different cultural and linguistic contexts. It brings theorists such as Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, or Jean-Luc Nancy---analyzed here in terms of an "inscriptive turn" in theory---into dialogue with literary discourses on the body in German-language texts (Thomas Hettche, Elfriede Jelinek), Spanish-language (post)dictatorship literature and performance art (Diamela Eltit), and writings of the Malaysian-Chinese diaspora (Zhang Guixing, Huang Jinshu).