White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text and Politics

ISBN-13: 9781844651368 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 224 str.

Cixous, Helene

Opis

These interviews with H?l?ne 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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments Editor's note Preface: On being interviewed Part I: Writing the enigma 1. The play of fiction 2. The novel today 3. Literature suspends death 4. In the beginnings, there were many Part II: Writing the feminine 5. When I do not write, it is as if I had died 6. My text is written in white and black, in milk and nightA" Part III: Writing and politics 7. Guardian of language 8. Against the emotion of history Part IV: Writing and theatre 9. The author between text and theatre Part V: Writing roots 10. Language is the only refuge 11. Being a Jewish woman is the ideal place Part VI: On painting, music and nature 12. You race towards that secret, which escapes 13. We must hand our inheritance on Part VII: Dialogues 14. On Marguerite Duras, with Michel Foucault 15. From the word to life, with Jacques Derrida Envoi: But the Earth still turns, and not as badly as all that Bibliography of Helene Cixous's works Index

O autorze

Helene Cixous, Susan Sellers