"Exploring the fiction of Hâeláene Cixous, this open access book highlights the ideas of selfhood and transcultural belonging in her works, demonstrating their vital relevance to decolonial paradigms and the Anthropocene era. Examining Cixous's connection with Algeria, it foregrounds her reflections on colonial, patriarchal and nationalist othering and how her writing takes Echo as a guiding mythology of diffractive selfhood. Using a notion of 'transcultural ec(h)ology', it examines how Cixous performs selfhood within ecologies of cohabitation. The ebook editions of this book are available…mehr
"Exploring the fiction of Hâeláene Cixous, this open access book highlights the ideas of selfhood and transcultural belonging in her works, demonstrating their vital relevance to decolonial paradigms and the Anthropocene era. Examining Cixous's connection with Algeria, it foregrounds her reflections on colonial, patriarchal and nationalist othering and how her writing takes Echo as a guiding mythology of diffractive selfhood. Using a notion of 'transcultural ec(h)ology', it examines how Cixous performs selfhood within ecologies of cohabitation. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Utrecht University"--
Birgit M. Kaiser is Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She has been a visiting researcher at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Paris-Nanterre (April/May 2017) and at the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University, USA. She is co-editor - with Lorna Burns - of Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze (2012) and editor of Singularity and Transnational Poetics (2015) and is author of Figures of Simplicity (2011) and - with Kathrin Thiele - Diffracted Worlds - Diffractive Readings (2018).
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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 Écriture Féminine (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 Pas de Deux: Entanglement and the Almost Inaudible Echoes of Lions (Cixous Reading Abdessemed) Bibliography
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 Écriture Féminine (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 Pas de Deux: Entanglement and the Almost Inaudible Echoes of Lions (Cixous Reading Abdessemed) Bibliography
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