"All the time when I lived in Algeria, my native country, "
"I dreamt of one day arriving in Algeria."
Born in Oran, Algeria, Helene Cixous spent her childhood in France's former colony. "Reveries of the Wild Woman" is her visceral memoir of a preadolescence that shaped her with intense feelings of alienation, yet also contributed, in a paradoxically essential way, to her development as a writer and philosopher.
Born to a French father and an Austro-German mother, both Jews, Cixous experienced a childhood fraught with racial and gender crisis. In her moving story she recounts how...