Stigmata: Escaping Texts [Hardcover]

H�l�ne Cixous (Author)

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Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (Nov 10 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415179785
ISBN-13: 978-0415179782
Product Dimensions: 2.1 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 440 g

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Cixous, author of more than 30 books of fiction, essays, and plays and professor of literature at the University of Paris 8, which she helped found in 1968, describes this work as an autobiographical narrative. One of the scant autobiographical facts she mentions is that her father, a Jewish physician, chose to raise his family in an Arab neighborhood in Algeria rather than a French one. As long as her father lived, the family was treated with respect, but when he died, she claims that the Arabs spurned the family because of their " `jewfrenchness,' a double original sin." Cixous's essays reveal her vast erudition, covering topics as diverse as sexual difference, postcolonial theory, literary theory, love, life, and death. In one essay, her analysis of the works of James Joyce and Clarice Lispector are especially insightful. This is fascinating reading, especially for comparative literature and other scholars.?Robert T. Ivey, Univ. of Memphis
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'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

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