Hélène Cixous's Poetics of Voice : Echo--Subjectivity--Diffraction /
<B>Exploring the poetic fictions of prominent French, feminist writer Hélène Cixous, this open access book highlights rich and timely ideas of selfhood in her work.</b> With careful elaboration of the writer's relationship with Algeria, Birgit M. Kaiser shows how Cixous reflects on...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2024.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Bloomsbury studies in global women's writing.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | <B>Exploring the poetic fictions of prominent French, feminist writer Hélène Cixous, this open access book highlights rich and timely ideas of selfhood in her work.</b> With careful elaboration of the writer's relationship with Algeria, Birgit M. Kaiser shows how Cixous reflects on experiences of colonial and patriarchal othering. More than that, she crafts a voice - an autofictive "I" - that takes the figure of Echo as a guiding mythology to portray selfhood as diffractive, always already exceeding binary models of self/other that remain central to conceptions of subjectivity. Putting forward the notion of 'echology', Kaiser examines how Cixous performs selfhood within ecologies of cohabitation, thereby critiquing and revising key tenets of psychoanalysis and its narrative of the subject. Drawing from famous texts such as <i>The Laugh of the Medusa</i>, <i>The Newly Born Woman</i>,<i> </i>and <i>The Portrait of Dora</i>, but also more recent titles like<i> Osnabrück</i>,<i> So Close</i>,<i> Death Shall be Dethroned</i> or Cixous's collaborations with Adel Abdessemed, <i>Hélène Cixous's Poetics of Voice: Echo - Subjectivity - Diffraction</i> offers fresh variations on familiar psychoanalytic and semiotic axes, and new ventures into dialogue with feminist new materialisms. Elegant, politically dynamic and providing exciting news ways into Cixous's work and poetics, the concept of 'echology' lends new perspectives for feminist and postcolonial formations of selfhood and new imaginations of what it means to be human within planetary life. <i> </i><i>The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Utrecht University.</i> |
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| Item Description: | Table of Contents Introduction Part I: Voice Chapter 1: Auto-Writing: On Voice in Hélène Cixous Chapter 2: Making Voice: Superposition or the Chorus that "I" is (Reading Cixous with Barad and Trinh) Part II: Feminine Writing Chapter 3: Losing Voice: Medusa's Head and Dora's Throat (Cixous Reading Freud) Chapter 4: Ec(h)ological Writing X <i>Écriture Féminine</i> (Reading Cixous with Kirby) Part III: Echology Chapter 5: Primal Scenes: A German-French-Jewish-Algerian Diffraction (Reading Cixous with Derrida and Fanon) Chapter 6: Algerian <i>Pas de Deux</i>: Entanglement and the Almost Inaudible Echoes of Lions (Cixous Reading Abdessemed) Bibliography <b> </b> <b> </b> <b> </b> <b> </b> |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781350404748 1350404748 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781350404748 |