Branded: A Diary ed. by Emmy Hennings (review)

Abstract

Of the many tendencies associated with the feminine Andreas-Salomé sought to transvaluate in both her fictional and theoretical writings, that of Woman’s anachronistic, even a-chronic relation to the teleological thrust of the patriarchal subject comes to the fore here. This may be why the novel’s subtitle alludes to the belated quality of its contents, as if the nineteenth century’s discursive preoccupation with the “woman question” invited interminable revisioning.