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Article: Helene Cixous.
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- March 22, 1997
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Helene Cixous is one of the most widely recognized names in contemporary French letters, a laureate of the Prix Medicis (1969), well known to students, scholars, and critics of French. Surprisingly, however, this extremely prolific writer, who between 1967 and 1991 published more than forty volumes, who is also appreciated as an inventive thinker and author of texts of literary criticism, philosophical and feminist thought, and works for the theater, has remained in great part inaccessible to anglophone readers, as only half a dozen of her works have as yet been translated into English. The appreciation she has gained in English-speaking circles has been chiefly due to the ...
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Article: Helene Cixous. The Day I Wasn't There.(Brief ...
The Review of Contemporary Fiction;
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...Helene Cixous. The Day I Wasn't There. Trans. Beverly Bie Brahic ... 120 pp. Paper: $19.95. The title refers to the day Cixous' son dies, a Downs Syndrome baby (Cixous uses the older term mongolism), but it also underlines ...
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