Affiliation:
1. School of Advanced Study University of London
Abstract
ABSTRACTThis article explores the concept of utopia in the context of current re‐negotiations of belonging and identity in Germany. Examining Tomer Gardi's broken german (2016) and Sasha Marianna Salzmann's novel Außer sich (2017), I explore how and to what extent literature can help us to develop new frameworks for negotiating difference and diversity. I argue that the texts complicate ideas of linguistic and gendered belonging and monolithic identity, and demonstrate how they imagine everyday utopias that represent alternative approaches to community and subjectivity.