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 work and features two dialogues with twentieth-century intellectuals Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. The interviews in White Ink span more than three decades and include a new conversation with Susan Sellers, the book's editor and a leading Cixous scholar and translator. Cixous discusses her work and writing process. She shares her views on literature, feminism, theater, autobiography, philosophy, politics, aesthetics, religion, ethics, and human relations, and she reflects on her roles as poet, playwright, professor, woman, Jew, and, her most famous, "French feminist theorist." Sellers organizes White Ink in such a way that readers can grasp the development of Cixous's commentary on a series of vital questions. Taken together, the revealing performances in White Ink provide an excellent introduction this thinker's brave and vital work--each one an event in language and thought that epitomizes Cixous's intellectual and poetic force.
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Feminine Writing Liberating Women Writing and Politics Writing the Enigma Writing, Demons, and God Writing for the Theater Genesis of the Text Autobiography On Race On Painting, Music, and Poetic Memory Dialogue 1: With Michel Foucault Dialogue 2: With Jacques Derrida And the Future Bibliographies
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Everything that concerns Helene Cixous is of interest. To my knowledge, there exists no other volume quite like this one. These interviews reveal the different aspects of Cixous's work with its underlying insistence on writing itself. -- Verena Conley, Harvard University
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ISBN
9780231147774
Publisert
2008-11-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Columbia University Press
Høyde
155 mm
Bredde
231 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

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Redaktør

Biographical note

Helene Cixous is professor of literature at the Universite de Paris VIII. She is the author of Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint, Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing (both published by Columbia University Press), and other works of fiction, essays, and plays. Susan Sellers is professor of English and related literature at the University of St. Andrews. She is the editor of The Helene Cixous Reader and author of Helene Cixous: Authorship, Autobiography, and Love and Helene Cixous: Live Theory.