White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text, and Politics (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

Cixous, Hà là ne

ISBN 10: 0231147775 / ISBN 13: 9780231147774

Published by Columbia University Press, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text, and Politics (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0231147775
• ISBN 13: 9780231147774
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

These interviews with Hélène Cixous offer invaluable insight into her philosophy and criticism. Culled from newspapers, journals, and books, White Ink collects the best of these conversations, which address the major concerns of Cixous's critical work and features two dialogues with twentieth-century intellectuals Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida.

The interviews in White Ink span more than three decades and include a new conversation with Susan Sellers, the book's editor and a leading Cixous scholar and translator. Cixous discusses her work and writing process. She shares her views on literature, feminism, theater, autobiography, philosophy, politics, aesthetics, religion, ethics, and human relations, and she reflects on her roles as poet, playwright, professor, woman, Jew, and, her most famous, "French feminist theorist." Sellers organizes White Ink in such a way that readers can grasp the development of Cixous's commentary on a series of vital questions. Taken together, the revealing performances in White Ink provide an excellent introduction this thinker's brave and vital work—each one an event in language and thought that epitomizes Cixous's intellectual and poetic force.

About the Author

Hélène Cixous is professor of literature at the Université de Paris VIII. She is the author of Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint, Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing (both published by Columbia University Press), and other works of fiction, essays, and plays.

Susan Sellers is professor of English and related literature at the University of St. Andrews. She is the editor of The Hélène Cixous Reader and author of Hélène Cixous: Authorship, Autobiography, and Love and Hélène Cixous: Live Theory.