Coming to Writing and Other Essays Paperback by Helene Cixous

Product Details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press (1992-01-07)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 214 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780674144378
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

This collection presents six essays by one of France’s most remarkable contemporary authors. A notoriously playful stylist, here Hélène Cixous explores how the problematics of the sexes—viewed as a paradigm for all difference, which is the organizing principle behind identity and meaning—manifest themselves, write themselves, in texts. These superb translations do full justice to Cixous’s prose, to its songlike flow and allusive brilliance.

About the Author

Hélène Cixous is Professor at the University of Paris VIII, and director of the university’s Center for Research in Feminine Studies.

Susan Rubin Suleiman is the Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.