Hélène Cixous, Rootprints - Softcover

Mireille Calle-Gruber; Hélène Cixous

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415155428 ISBN 13: 9780415155427

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Helene Cixous is Professor of Literature at the University of Paris VIII. Mireille Calle-Grubar is Professor of French Literature at Queen's University, Ontario.

Reviews

In these edited dialogs, Cixous, known in the English-speaking world chiefly as a literary theorist and political activist, is given an opportunity to chat about her fiction, theater, and, most interesting of all, her family. Interlocutor Calle-Gruber is far from passive. She not only knows what Cixous wants to say about herself, but she has opinions of her own?though, unfortunately, the decision to put Calle-Gruber's questions in very small type will encourage readers to skip them. Interspersed are meditations and maxims from Cixous's notebook. What is especially valuable about this collection is its reproduction of selected family photographs and the family tree. Cixous came from a family of German-speaking Central European Jews who settled in Algeria. Her father was a physician and her mother a midwife in Oran, the site of Camus's The Plague. This work is truly indispensable for filling in the gaps of Cixous's imaginative biography of her father, Or, Lettres de mon pere (still untranslated). Effectively translated, this is recommended for larger public and academic collections.?Marilyn Gaddis Rose, SUNY at Binghamton, N.Y.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415155428
• ISBN 13: 9780415155427
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254