Edited by Lee A.Jacobus and Regina Barreca University of Connecticut Storrs

• I Cixous: Écrivain feminine 1 Life Makes Text from My Body: A Reading of Hélène Cixous’ La Venue à l’Écriture 2 Le Père de l’écriture: Writing Within the Secret Father 3 The Medusa’s Slip: Hélène Cixous and the Underpinnings of Écriture Feminine 4 Hélène Cixous: Music Forever or Short Treatise on a Poetics for a Story To Be Sung II Cixous’ Theorizing/Theorizing Cixous 5 Reading and Writing the Other: Criticism as Felicity 6 Cixous’ Concept of “Brushing” as a Gift 7 The Gift: Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida 8 Hélène Cixous Names Woman, Mother, Other: “a feminine plural like me” 9 Cixous, Spivak, and Oppositional Theory III Portrayal and Performance 10 Hélène Cixous: A Space Between—Women and (Their) Language 11 Hélène Cixous and the Need of Portraying: on Portrait du Soleil Mnouchkine/Hélène Cixous: The Meeting of Two Chimaeras 13 The Self and The “Other(s)” in Cixous’ Sihanouk 14 Bringing a Historical Character on Stage: L’Indiade 15 Men More Than Men 16 The Critic as Playwright: Performing Hélène Cixous’ LeNom d’Oedipe

Edited by Lee A.Jacobus and Regina Barreca University of Connecticut Storrs

• I Cixous: Écrivain feminine 1 Life Makes Text from My Body: A Reading of Hélène Cixous’ La Venue à l’Écriture 2 Le Père de l’écriture: Writing Within the Secret Father 3 The Medusa’s Slip: Hélène Cixous and the Underpinnings of Écriture Feminine 4 Hélène Cixous: Music Forever or Short Treatise on a Poetics for a Story To Be Sung II Cixous’ Theorizing/Theorizing Cixous 5 Reading and Writing the Other: Criticism as Felicity 6 Cixous’ Concept of “Brushing” as a Gift 7 The Gift: Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida 8 Hélène Cixous Names Woman, Mother, Other: “a feminine plural like me” 9 Cixous, Spivak, and Oppositional Theory III Portrayal and Performance 10 Hélène Cixous: A Space Between—Women and (Their) Language 11 Hélène Cixous and the Need of Portraying: on Portrait du Soleil Mnouchkine/Hélène Cixous: The Meeting of Two Chimaeras 13 The Self and The “Other(s)” in Cixous’ Sihanouk 14 Bringing a Historical Character on Stage: L’Indiade 15 Men More Than Men 16 The Critic as Playwright: Performing Hélène Cixous’ LeNom d’Oedipe

Edited by Lee A.Jacobus and Regina Barreca University of Connecticut Storrs

• I Cixous: Écrivain feminine 1 Life Makes Text from My Body: A Reading of Hélène Cixous’ La Venue à l’Écriture 2 Le Père de l’écriture: Writing Within the Secret Father 3 The Medusa’s Slip: Hélène Cixous and the Underpinnings of Écriture Feminine 4 Hélène Cixous: Music Forever or Short Treatise on a Poetics for a Story To Be Sung II Cixous’ Theorizing/Theorizing Cixous 5 Reading and Writing the Other: Criticism as Felicity 6 Cixous’ Concept of “Brushing” as a Gift 7 The Gift: Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida 8 Hélène Cixous Names Woman, Mother, Other: “a feminine plural like me” 9 Cixous, Spivak, and Oppositional Theory III Portrayal and Performance 10 Hélène Cixous: A Space Between—Women and (Their) Language 11 Hélène Cixous and the Need of Portraying: on Portrait du Soleil Mnouchkine/Hélène Cixous: The Meeting of Two Chimaeras 13 The Self and The “Other(s)” in Cixous’ Sihanouk 14 Bringing a Historical Character on Stage: L’Indiade 15 Men More Than Men 16 The Critic as Playwright: Performing Hélène Cixous’ LeNom d’Oedipe