H駘鈩e Cixous: Writing the Feminine (Expanded Edition) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803263451)

Born in Algeria in 1937, H駘鈩e Cixous achieved world fame for her short stories, criticism, and fictionalized autobiography (Dedans, 1969). Her work quickly became controversial because it frankly tested a distinction between male and female writing. Her literary experiments and her conclusions make her one of the most stimulating and most elusive feminist theorists of our time.

Verena Andermatt Conley, a professor of French and women's studies at Miami University, has written the first full-length study of Cixous in English. Looking at Cixous as writer, teacher, and theoretician, Conley takes up Cixous's ongoing exploration of the "feminine" as related to the "masculine"--words not to be equated with "woman" and "man"--and her search for a terminology less freighted with emotion and prejudgment. Conley has updated this paperback edition with a new preface, bibliography, and interview with Cixous conducted by the editors of Hors Cadre.

Author: Verena Andermatt Conley
ISBN-10: 0803263457
ISBN-13: 9780803263451
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 02/01/1991
Pages: 197
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d