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The Hélène Cixous Reader
by
Susan Sellers (Goodreads Author) ,
Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida
This is the first truly representative collection of texts by Helene Cixous. The substantial pieces range broadly across her entire oeuvre, and include essays, works of fiction, lectures and drama. Arranged helpfully in chronological order, the extracts span twenty years of intellectual thought and demonstrate clearly the development of one of the most creative and brillia...more
Hardcover, 272 pages
Published
October 3rd 1994
by Routledge
(first published July 28th 1994)
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Cixous did some excellent work in poststructural feminism. Some of her ideas, especially le ecriture feminine, have been subject to much-needed criticism. My main problem with Cixous is not her inaccessibility, but her pretentiousness. Her work is way too Eurocentric and essentialist, but also intelligent and sometimes cathartic.
I bought this so I could re-read "The Laugh of the Medusa" which is one of the most challenging and perplexing essays on either writing or feminism I've ever encountered. But I'm excited to explore more of Hélène Cixous, and this seems to be an excellent starting point. Much of her literature is hard to find in translation, and her essays have sometimes proved to be even more difficult to track down. I'm glad that someone had the bright idea to collect some of her works sooner rather t...more
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