Overview
Écrivaine inclassable, Hélène Cixous offre une écriture dont les grands thèmes – le père mort, le pays perdu et la mère étrangère –, aux fortes résonances autobiographiques, s’affirment continuellement tout en multipliant les échos poétiques et philosophiques. La question de l’origine, à la fois singulière et plurielle, donne lieu à une écriture-pensée d’une subjectivité qui montre ses enracinements, revisite les lieux et les liens, mais (se) défait aussi des mythes de l’origine. Ce volume se propose d’étudier les marqueurs de la féminité, de l’« algériance » et de la judéité comme les principaux lieux d’interrogation de l’origine, auxquels s’ajoutent la filiation allemande mise en lumière dans les textes les plus récents, Gare d’Osnabrück à Jérusalem et Une autobiographie allemande. Le volume ouvre par un inédit d’Hélène Cixous, « Un legs empoisonné ». Hélène Cixous offers us an unclassifiable oeuvre, the main themes of which - the dead father, the lost country and the foreign mother -, all autobiographically inspired, assert themselves as such while offering the reader continuously new poetical and philosophical insights. The question of origin, either singular or multiple, gives rise to an écriture-pensée of a subjectivity which shows its roots, revisits places and relationships, but also breaks down myths of origin. This collection of essays proposes to study the markers of femininity, “algériance”, Jewishness and, as expressed in Cixous’ latest works of fiction, the German filiation, as the main places of questioning origin. “Un legs empoisonné”, an unpublished text by Hélène Cixous, opens the collection.
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Author: Kathleen Gyssels ,
Christa Stevens
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 66
Weight: 0.268kg
ISBN: 9789004417328
ISBN 10: 900441732
Pages: 158
Publication Date: 28 November 2019
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: French
Reviews
“Whilst very diverse, the contributions all emphasize the return to the impossibility of origins, albeit through different points of focus: the father, the mother, places, Jewish identity and history, among others. What they suggest, particularly given the inclusion of ‘Un legs empoisonné’, is that this alternative inscription of deferred roots, an exploration of the past that generates dialogue and renewed forms of connection, is itself a valuable, if potentially difficult or compromised legacy.” - Kathryn Robson, French Studies, 2021. “Although these returns to familiar topoi might seem to suggest a narrowing focus appropriate to a mature writer, these volume’s scholars have recognized Cixous’s continuing amplification of language, place, and being, a move that confirms that écriture feminine cixousienne continues to overflow with promise for author and readers alike. In short, this collection offers a clarifying understanding of a great author of our time.” - Eilene Hoft-March, Women in French Studies, 2021. “Un très bel ouvrage, partout éloquent et richement pertinent, qui pénètre jusqu’au coeur même d’une très grande oeuvre.” - Michael Bishop, Dalhousie University Canada, in Dalhousie French Studies Vol. 116, 2020 pp. 192-194
Whilst very diverse, the contributions all emphasize the return to the impossibility of origins, albeit through different points of focus: the father, the mother, places, Jewish identity and history, among others. What they suggest, particularly given the inclusion of 'Un legs empoisonne', is that this alternative inscription of deferred roots, an exploration of the past that generates dialogue and renewed forms of connection, is itself a valuable, if potentially difficult or compromised legacy. - Kathryn Robson, French Studies, 2021. Although these returns to familiar topoi might seem to suggest a narrowing focus appropriate to a mature writer, these volume's scholars have recognized Cixous's continuing amplification of language, place, and being, a move that confirms that ecriture feminine cixousienne continues to overflow with promise for author and readers alike. In short, this collection offers a clarifying understanding of a great author of our time. - Eilene Hoft-March, Women in French Studies, 2021.
Author Information
Kathleen Gyssels est Professeure de littérature francophone à l’Université d’Anvers. Elle est l’auteure de Marrane et Marronne : la coécriture réversible d’André et Simone Schwarz-Bart (2014) et ‘Black-Label’ ou les déboires de Léon-Gontran Damas (2016). Christa Stevens est l’auteure de L’Écriture solaire d’Hélène Cixous (1999) ainsi que de nombreux articles sur cette écrivaine. Elle publie également sur la littérature antillaise et africaine et dirige avec K. Gyssels la collection Francopolyphonies aux éditions Brill. Kathleen Gyssels is Professor of francophone literature at Antwerp University. Her publications include Marrane et Marronne: la coécriture réversible d'André et Simone Schwarz-Bart (2014) and 'Black-Label' ou les déboires de Léon-Gontran Damas (2016). Christa Stevens has published L’Écriture solaire d’Hélène Cixous (1999) as well as many other articles on the author. She also writes on francophone Caribbean and African literature and is with K. Gyssels the editor of the series Francopolyphonies published by Brill.
