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Hélène Cixous Reader
This key collection of feminist writing includes essays, works of fiction, lectures and drama, all arranged chronologically. Spanning twenty years, it demonstrates the development of one of the great creative minds of the 20ieth century.
268 pages, Paperback
First published July 28, 1994
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Hélène Cixous
175Ìýbooks785ÌýfollowersHélène Cixous is a Jewish-French, Algerian-born feminist well-known as one of the founders of poststructuralist feminist theory along with Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva. She is now a professor of English Literature at University of Paris VIII and chairs the Centre de Recherches en Etudes Féminines which she founded in 1974.
She has published numerous essays, playwrights, novels, poems, and literary criticism. Her academic works concern subjects of feminism, the human body, history, death, and theatre.
She has published numerous essays, playwrights, novels, poems, and literary criticism. Her academic works concern subjects of feminism, the human body, history, death, and theatre.
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January 4, 2008
I bought this so I could re-read "The Laugh of the Medusa" which is one of the most challenging and perplexing essays on either writing or feminism I've ever encountered. But I'm excited to explore more of Hélène Cixous, and this seems to be an excellent starting point. Much of her literature is hard to find in translation, and her essays have sometimes proved to be even more difficult to track down. I'm glad that someone had the bright idea to collect some of her works sooner rather than later.
January 17, 2018
Beautiful writing, lyrical and imaginative, studied in my Transcultural Collaborative Blind Date class in Spring of 2016.
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November 8, 2024**No hablo de este libro** Hablo de «La llegada de la escritura» de Hélène Cixous, que no me aparece en GoodReads y necesito recomendároslo de los hermoso que es. Editorial Amorrortu. Habla de su relación con la escritura, de cómo durante mucho tiempo pesó en ella la idea de que sólo los hombres podÃan escribir, del dilema de las lenguas, del dilema de la pertenencia a un paÃs, de ser judÃa, de hablar alemán, de venir de Argelia y escribir en francés, de nacionalizarse francesa, de la obligación de ser mujer, de ser lanzada a ser mujer a la fuerza, de la maternidad y del cuidar a la madre y siempre de escritura. Mi rating un 5.
February 23, 2012
For me the unavoidable selections here are those from The Newly Born Woman ("Sorties"), Extreme Fidelity and Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing. The latter has been a formative text for my writing practice.
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