White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text, and Politics (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
by Hélène Cixous
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He?le?ne Cixous is widely regarded as one of the world?s most influential feminist writers and thinkers. White Ink brings together her most revealing interviews. Spanning over four decades and including a new interview with the editor Susan Sellers, this collection presents a brilliant, running commentary on the subjects at the heart of Cixous?s writing. Here, Cixous discusses her books and her creative process, her views on and insights into literature, philosophy, theatre, politics, show more aesthetics, faith and ethics, human relations and the state of the world. As she responds to interviewers? questions, Cixous is prompted to reflect on her roles and activities as poet, playwright, feminist theorist, professor of literature, philosopher, woman, Jew. Each interview is a remarkable performance, an event in language and thought where He?le?ne Cixous?s celebrated intellectual and poetic force can be witnessed ?in action?. The accessibility of the interview format provides an excellent starting-point for readers new to Cixous, while those already familiar with her work will find unexpected insights and fresh elucidations of her thought. show lessTags
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I have always played with God. For me, the signifier Dieu, as I have always said, is the synonym of what goes beyond us, of our own projection towards the future, towards infinity.
White Ink is a collection of interviews culled from over 20 years. Despite the interest of my coworkers in the subtitle - Interviews on sex, text and politics - there is little reflection on the erotic or libidinal. Cixous has become nearly a necessity for me as of late. Her thoughts spiral and glisten. There is an abundance of strange poetry in these theoretical sorties. It is dreamish and incisingly cerebral. Shakespeare and Joyce are partitioned and ruminated upon. I revel in such.
Today was the Champions League Final in Berlin and it was an excellent match. show more It also marks the end of the football season as well as a forthcoming long hot summer of nervous twitching. Just after the final whistle, I read the text's penultimate exchange between Cixous and longtime counterpart Jacques Derrida. I nearly swooned: where's my hankie, I purred? Perhaps the season won't be as interminable as I feared. show less
White Ink is a collection of interviews culled from over 20 years. Despite the interest of my coworkers in the subtitle - Interviews on sex, text and politics - there is little reflection on the erotic or libidinal. Cixous has become nearly a necessity for me as of late. Her thoughts spiral and glisten. There is an abundance of strange poetry in these theoretical sorties. It is dreamish and incisingly cerebral. Shakespeare and Joyce are partitioned and ruminated upon. I revel in such.
Today was the Champions League Final in Berlin and it was an excellent match. show more It also marks the end of the football season as well as a forthcoming long hot summer of nervous twitching. Just after the final whistle, I read the text's penultimate exchange between Cixous and longtime counterpart Jacques Derrida. I nearly swooned: where's my hankie, I purred? Perhaps the season won't be as interminable as I feared. show less
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Born in 1937 in Algeria, Helene Cixous came to Paris, where she is currently professor of English, in 1955. After a dissertation on James Joyce, The Exile of James Joyce (1968), she began to publish novels, critical essays, and plays, most notably Le Portrait de Dora (1976), a feminist retelling of a Freudian case history. Jacques Derrida has show more named Helene Cixous the greatest contemporary French writer. Cixous has been an active participant in the development of literary criticism after structuralism and has been a leading figure in the French feminist movement. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 840.9 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French literature and literatures of related Romance languages History, description
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- PQ2663 .I9 .Z46 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Modern literature 1961-2000
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