Helene Cixous - Böcker

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»Vid sidan av Simone de Beauvoir och Luce Irigaray framstår Hélène Cixous som en av de mest betydande franska feminister som inspirerat kvinnor att våga bryta den manliga dominansen. I hennes författarskap sätts våra könsidentiteter i gungning.« L...

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»Som att försöka navigera i en liten eka på ett stormigt hav av känslor och motkänslor. Jag låter mig vaggas in i Hélène Cixous glana litterära värld.« Sinziana Ravini, Aftonbladet Att resa till Osnabrück är att resa till Jerusalem, det är att fin...

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En feministisk klassiker äntligen på svenska. »En essä som på sina blygsamma 30 sidor är upprorisk och utopisk, vildsint och het.« THERESE ERIKSSON, SVD » Medusas skratt har verkligen sina särskilda språkpärlor. Man måste till exempel bara älska d...

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»Vid sidan av Simone de Beauvoir och Luce Irigaray framstår Hélène Cixous som en av de mest betydande franska feminister som inspirerat kvinnor att våga bryta med den manliga dominansen. I hennes författarskap sätts våra könsidentiteter i gungning...

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»Som att försöka navigera i en liten eka på ett stormigt hav av känslor och motkänslor. Jag låter mig vaggas in i Hélène Cixous glana litterära värld.« Sinziana Ravini, Aftonbladet »...allt jag önskade var deras Stad och deras Algeriet [...] så sn...

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Who can say "I am Jewish?" What does "Jew" mean? What especially does it mean for Jacques Derrida, founder of deconstruction, scoffer at boundaries and fixed identities, explorer of the indeterminate and undecidable? In Portrai...

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Helene Cixous is more than an influential theorist. She is also a groundbreaking author and playwright. Combining an idiosyncratic mix of autobiographical and fictional narrative with a host of philosophical and poetic observations, Cixous's writi...

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These interviews with Helene Cixous offer invaluable insight into her philosophy and criticism. Culled from newspapers, journals, and books, White Ink collects the best of these conversations, which address the major concerns of Cixous's critical ...

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Love's memories, love recalling itself in letters lost and found over an interval of forty years: Cixous's writer-narrator advances here far into a labyrinth of passions long ago delivered and yet still arriving through the mail, through letters a...

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Zero's Neighbour is Helene Cixous's tribute to the minimalist genius of the artist in exile who courted nothingness in his writing like nobody else: Samuel Beckett. In this unabashedly personal odyssey through a sizeable range of his novels, plays...

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In So Close, the internationally renowned writer Helene Cixous recounts a return to her native Algeria after a more than thirty-year absence. Before she can decide to go, she must sift through large parts of her past in a land where she never felt...

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A compelling work of autobiographical fiction, Helene Cixous's Hemlock weaves tragedy and comedy in its exploration of various human attachments: between an elderly but still truculent mother and her writer-daughter, between the mother and her sis...

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"I get up every day with one day more," says Eve, the writer's 97-year-old mother. She is escaping into the New Life and the writer must race to catch up. As things slip away and fall into oblivion, as her mother's world and thus her own...

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"Isn't it ... particularly difficult to 'speak' of your work?" Frederic-Yves Jeannet asks Helene Cixous in this fascinating book of interviews. "[I]t's only in writing, on paper, ... that I reach the most unknown, the strangest, the...

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In 2009, the writer-narrator finds a Box. Within it lie the pages of her very first manuscript, pages she thought she had long since thrown away. Le Prenom de Dieu was the text that marked the start of her prodigious career, and yet for the narrat...

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'I have often declared my admiration for Helene Cixous, for the person and for the work: immense, powerful, so multiple but unique in this century.' - Jacques Derrida 'Insister of Jacques Derrida, so expertly translated by Derrida&a...

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In writing Le Livre de Promethea Hlne Cixous set for herself the task of bridging the immeasurable distance between love and language. She describes a love between two women in its totality, experienced as both a physical presence and a sense of i...

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No contemporary French feminist has made a bigger impact in America than Hlne Cixous. Brilliant, bold, and combative, author of numerous novels and a gargantuan study of James Joyce, and sponsor of a series of notorious seminars at the University ...

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Something of a historical event, this book combines loosely "autobiographical" texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. "Savoir," by Helene Cixous, is a brief but densely layered account of her exp...

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Something of a historical event, this book combines loosely "autobiographical" texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. "Savoir," by Helene Cixous, is a brief but densely layered account of her exp...

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Helene Cixous is arguably the most insightful and unbridled reader of Jacques Derrida today. In Insister, she brings a unique mixture of scholarly erudition, theoretical speculation, and breathtaking textual explication to an extremely close readi...

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Helene Cixous is arguably the most insightful and unbridled reader of Jacques Derrida today. In Insister, she brings a unique mixture of scholarly erudition, theoretical speculation, and breathtaking textual explication to an extremely close readi...

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All the time when I lived in Algeria, my native country, I dreamt of one day arriving in Algeria. Born in Oran, Algeria, Helene Cixous spent her childhood in France's former colony. ""Reveries of the Wild Woman"" is her vi...

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In this memoir-novel, a narrator who resembles Helene Cixous obsessively recounts an incident - the premature death of her first-born child, a Down syndrome baby left in the care of the clinic in Algeria where her midwife mother works. She uses th...

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Published in France as La jeune ne in 1975, and found here in its first English translation, The Newly Born Woman is a landmark text of the modern feminist movement. In it, Hlne Cixous and Catherine Clment put forward the concept of criture femini...

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The texts that comprise this volume were selected from Helene Cixous's seminars on the work of Clarice Lispector. They reflect Cixous's own meditations on problems of reading and writing, and on related themes such as exchange and the gi...

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In this act of willful writing, by turns lyrical and intense, Helene Cixous brings Osip Mandelstam and Nelson Mandela together through the common first syllables of their names, the dates of their respective exiles, and the women, Nadezhda Mandels...

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