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In this act of willful writing, by turns lyrical and intense, Helene Cixous brings Osip Mandelstam and Nelson Mandela together through the common first syllables of their names, the dates of their respective exiles, and the women, Nadezhda Mandelstam and Winnie-Zami Mandela, who disclose and restore their partners' lives through language. For Cixous, politics is approached most openly and freely through poetry; social change cannot exist without linguistic change. Her poetic language moderates the historical, political, and personal tales of Mandelstam and Mandela to produce a new sense of individual tragedy and cultural possibility. This intriguing and beautiful book is an act of emancipation as it releases its subjects - along with its readers - from the restricted language of constraint and exile. Long distinguished among creative writers in France and as an intellectual in the United States, Helene Cixous is the author of more than thirty volumes, many of which are now available in English-language translation. She has been highly praised in France and elsewhere by such renowned intellectuals as Jacques Derrida.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
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In a highly reflective and dense prose-poem of mythic proportions, French feminist and avant-garde writer Cixous draws parallels between two couples--Nelson and Winnie Mandela, who fought a decades-long political struggle against South African apartheid, and the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, who, with his wife, Nadezhda, waged a moral revolt against Stalinism. Each couple faced arbitrary arrests, imprisonment and banishment for refusing to submit to a corrupt system. Each woman gave her husband hope and inspiration to carry on, yet was also a moving force in her own right. Cixous's poetic reimagining of these seemingly disparate lives is informed by contemporary currents of French thought and, in the Mandela narrative, filtered through the prism of African myths, oral traditions and animal totems. While Cixous, at first blush, glorifies and sanctifies her four protagonists, readers who dig deeper into her extraordinary experimental fiction will be rewarded by more, including passages of astonishing beauty and a deep meditation on the wellsprings of political resistance.
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- PublisherUniv Of Minnesota Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0816621144
- ISBN 13 9780816621149
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages358
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