208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Hèléne Cixous -- author, playwright and French feminist theorist -- is a key figure in twentieth-century literary theory. Stigmata brings together her most recent essays for the first time. Acclaimed for her intricate and challenging writing style, Cixous presents a collection of texts that get away -- escaping the reader, the writers, the book. Cixous's writing pursues authors... Read more
Reading in painting 1 Bathsheba or the interior Bible 2 Without end, no, State of drawingness, no, rather: The Executioner’s taking off. Ringing in the feminine hour 3 In October 1991 ... 4 Hiss of the axe 5 What is it o’clock? or The door (we never enter) 6 Love of the wolf 7 ‘Mamãe, disse ele,’ or Joyce’s second hand, Going off writing 8 Unmasked! 9 Writing blind: conversation with the donkey 10 My Algeriance, in other words: to depart not to arrive from Algeria. From my menagerie to Philosophy 11 Shared at dawn 12 Stigmata, or Job the dog

Biography

Hélène Cixous Centre de Recherches en etudes Feminines at Paris VIII University, France)

'Stigmata's sample of offerings brings the reader up to date with her current concerns [and] make[s] a worthwhile contribution to Cixous studies . . . undoubtedly of value to those students, teachers and researchers who are interested in her rich body of writing.' - Gill Rye, Women's Philosophy Review