In Terms of Exchange. Economies of Difference in Works by Marlen Haushofer, Ingeborg Bachmann and Hélène Cixous analyses texts by two Austrian woman writers, Marlen Haushofer and Ingeborg Bachmann, as well as French writer and theorist Hélène Cixous. Cixous’ texts are not read here as meta- or secondary texts to be applied to Haushofer’s and Bachmann’s writing, but as a voice equal to theirs. . Alongside a critical overview of the common narratives in Haushofer, Bachmann and Cixous reception, this study analyses selected motifs from the authors’ texts and sheds light on the economies of their writing processes as well as those of the manuscripts and typoscripts of Die Mansarde and Das Buch Franza.

This book is included in DOAB.