Hélène Cixous, rootprints : memory and life writing

Author(s)

• Cixous, Hélène
• Calle-Gruber, Mireille
• Prenowitz, Eric

Bibliographic Information

Hélène Cixous, rootprints : memory and life writing

Hélène Cixous and Mireille Calle-Gruber ; translated by Eric Prenowitz

Routledge, 1997

• : hbk
• : pbk

Other Title

Hélène Cixous, photos de racines

Hélène Cixous

Note

Originally published: Paris : Editions des femmes, 1994

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-240)

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Helene Cixous is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and innovative contemporary thinkers. Published here in English for the first time Helene Cixous, Rootprints is an ideal introduction to Cixous's theory and her fiction, tracing her development as a writer and intellectual whose remarkable prespicacity and electrifying poetic force are known world-wide. Unprecedented in its form and content this collection breaks new ground in the theory and practice of auto/biography. Cixous's creative reflections on the past provide occasion for scintillating forays into the future. The text includes: * an extended interview between Cixous and Calle-Gruber, exploring Cixous's creative and intellectual processes * a revealing collection of photographs taken from Cixous's family album, set against a poetic reflection by the author * selections from Cixous's private notebooks * a contribution by Jacques Derrida * original 'thing-pieces' by Calle-Gruber.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 We Are Already in the Jaws of the Book
• Chapter 1 Inter Views
• Part 2 Appendices
• Chapter 2 Excerpt 1: Jacques Derrida, 'Fourmis', Lectures de la Difference Sexuelle
• Chapter 3 Excerpt 2: Helene Cixous, 'Quelle heure est-il?' Le Passage des frontieres.
• Part 3 Portrait of the writing, Mireille Calle-Gruber
• Chapter 4 Portrait of writing Writing-thinking
• Chapter 5 Cixous GenreOutlaw
• Chapter 6
• Part 4 Albums and legends
• Chapter 7 Helene Cixous:Part 5 Chronicle, Mireille Calle-GruberPart 6 Helene Cixous, Bibliography, M. Sandre, E. PrenowitzPart 7 Aftermaths, Eric Prenowitz

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Details

• NCID: BA32246219
• ISBN:
  • 041515541X
  • 0415155428
• LCCN: 96044588
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: 254 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PQ2663.I9
  • DC21 : 848/.91409
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Cixous, Hélène, 1937- -- Interviews
  • LCSH : Authors, French -- 20th century -- Interviews