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Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
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EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA
This major new collection of texts by Hélène Cixous brings together a range of important untranslated as well as four previously unpublished essays. These essays deal with literature, politics, history, Algeria, and the university and include works...
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This major new collection of texts by Hélène Cixous brings together a range of important untranslated as well as four previously unpublished essays. These essays deal with literature, politics, history, Algeria, and the university and include works from Cixous' most significant contributions to literary criticism (Joyce, Kleist, Stendhal, Kafka, Shakespeare) as well as her contemporary writing on human rights and geo-politics. They are all informed by Cixous' unique gift for combining a writer's love of idiom and life with a scholar's acute deconstructive reading. These texts present an extended account of what Cixous calls here 'autobibliography' in which writing, theory, politics and life combine to open up the world through critical reading and self-reflection. 'I am on the side of life', says Cixous. These essays affirm Cixous' reputation as one of our greatest readers and sources of critical light in the world today. Key Features *Author is a leading French theorist and writer *Essays cover a wide range of topics and contemporary issues.
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; Sources; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction: Cixousian Gambols; Chapter 1 Fiction and Its Phantoms: A Reading of Freud's Das Unheimliche (The 'Uncanny'); Chapter 2 The Character of 'Character'; Chapter 3 Missexuality: Where Come I Play?; Chapter 4 The Pleasure Reinciple or Paradox Lost; Chapter 5 Reaching the Point of Wheat, or A Portrait of the Artist as a Maturing Woman; Chapter 6 Letter to Zohra Drif; Chapter 7 The Names of Oran; Chapter 8 The Book as One of Its Own Characters; Chapter 9 How Not to Speak of Algeria
Chapter 10 The Oklahoma Nature Theater Is RecruitingChapter 11 The Book I Don't Write; Chapter 12 The Unforeseeable; Chapter 13 Passion Michel Foucault; Chapter 14 Promised Cities; Chapter 15 Volleys of Humanity; Acknowledgements; Index
