{"product_id":"reveries-of-the-wild-woman-helene-cixous-9780810123632","title":"Reveries of the Wild Woman: Primal Scenes","description":"\u003ci\u003eAll the time when I lived in Algeria, my native country, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eI dreamt of one day arriving in Algeria.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Born in Oran, Algeria, H駘鈩e Cixous spent her childhood in France's former colony. \u003ci\u003eReveries of the Wild Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is her visceral memoir of a preadolescence that shaped her with intense feelings of alienation, yet also contributed, in a paradoxically essential way, to her development as a writer and philosopher. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Born to a French father and an Austro-German mother, both Jews, Cixous experienced a childhood fraught with racial and gender crisis. In her moving story she recounts how small events--a new dog, the gift of a bicycle--reverberate decades later as symbols filled with social and psychological meaning. She and her family endure a double alienation, by Algerians for being French and by the French for being Jewish, and Cixous builds her story on the themes of isolation and exclusion she felt in particular under the Vichy government and during the Algerian Civil War. Yet she also concedes that memories of Algeria awaken in her a longing for her home country, and ponders how that stormy relationship has influenced her life and thought. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A meditation on postcolonial identity and gender, \u003ci\u003eReveries of the Wild Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is also a poignant recollection of how a girl's childhood is, indeed, author to the woman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Helene Cixous\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810123630\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810123632\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.33d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2006 pg. 45","brand":"Helene Cixous","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059797815551,"sku":"9780810123632","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b5ab7643-dd10-428d-b0c3-baf3175778ea.jpg?v=1685060397","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reveries-of-the-wild-woman-helene-cixous-9780810123632","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}