Manhattan - Letters from Prehistory
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Manhattan - Letters from Prehistory
Traveling from library to library, France to the United States, Shakespeare to Kafka to Joyce, Manhattan deploys with gusto all the techniques for which Cixous’s fiction and essays are known: rapid juxtapositions of time and place, narrative and description, analysis and philosophical reflection. It investigates subjects Cixous has spent her life probing: reading, writing, and the “omnipotence-other” seductions of literature; a family’s flight from Nazi Germany and postcolonial Algeria; childhood, motherhood, and, not least, the strange experience of falling in love with, as Jacques Derrida writes, “a counterfeit genius.”
“A luminous book. A poignant literary work.”— Alessia Ricciardi (University of California, Berkeley)
“This brilliant book is above all an investigation of the power of Literature, of the ways in which fiction keeps secret what it seems to expose, lies and tells the truth at the same time. Hélene Cixous infuses this haunting story of deception with her unique poetic style, incisive wit, and philosophical acumen.”— Brigitte Weltman-Aron (University of Florida)
"Follows a young French scholar who travels to the U.S. in 1965."— Publishers Weekly
A szerzőről:
HÉLENE CIXOUS’s Three Steps on the Ladder to Writing and Laugh of the Medusa are seminal texts in postmodern cultural theory. Born in 1937 in Algeria, former Chair of the Centre de Recherches en Études Féminines at Paris VIII University, Cixous lectures in France and abroad. Her writing is remarkable for its crossing of boundaries between the genres and styles of fiction, autobiography, and analysis.
A fordítóról:
BEVERLEY BIE BRAHIC lives in Paris. She is the translator of Hélène Cixous’s Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint, Dream I Tell You, Reveries of the Wild Woman, and The Day I Wasn’t There, and the author of a volume of poems, Against Gravity.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Translator: Brahic, Beverley Bie
Category: Társadalomtudomány / Gender Studies, Irodalomtudomány, Kultúra
Translator: Brahic, Beverley Bie
Category: Társadalomtudomány / Gender Studies, Irodalomtudomány, Kultúra