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Helene Cixous is well-known as a reader of ''modernist'' writers: Joyce, Beckett, Kafka, Faulkner, Bachmann and others, while her own fiction writing forges many new directions in literature. Foremost readers of the work of Helene Cixous consider new interpretations of her vast literary and theoretical work, examining its relation and non-relation to modernism. Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism features an extended new interview with Cixous, conducted for the volume, in which she reflects on her relation to the critical category of ''modernism,'' alongside a previously untranslated piece by the author. As with other volumes in the series, Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism follows a three-part structure. Essays in the first section examine individual works by Cixous and the varied approaches her work has taken towards literature and art. The second section examines critical and aesthetic parameters of her writing practices. The final section contains a glossary of key terms and Cixous''s neologisms recurrent throughout her work.
List of contents
List of Abbreviations of Works by Hélène Cixous
Introduction
Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California, USAPart I. Conceptualizing Cixous1. Bookcities and Cityscapes: Going Places with Cixous (alongside Joyce and Kafka)
Laurent Milesi, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China2. Scars Poetica
Laura Hughes, Independent Scholar3. The Bee and the Coffee Machine: Writing Apparatuses and Machineries in Hélène Cixous's Works
Olivier Morel, Notre Dame University, USA4. Another Analysis: Hélène Cixous's Magical Thinking
Elissa Marder, Emory University, USA5. (S)He War, or Rethinking, War-Peace, and Crime with Cixous
Ginette Michaud, Université de Montréal, Canada6 Hélène Cixous and Philosophy
Brigette Weltman-Aron, University of Florida, USA7. Full Flush: An Interview with Hélène Cixous
Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California, USA, and Nicholas Royle, University of Sussex, UK Part II. Cixousian Aesthetics8. The Apparatus of Death: Kafka, Baudelaire, Poe (from Seminar of 1 June 2024)
Hélène Cixous9. Countersigning Proust
Mairéad Hanrahan, University College London, UK10. Cixous Reading Kafka
Christa Stevens, Independent Scholar11. Life-Death, Invisible Wrestlers, and Siamese Twins
Marta Segarra, University of Paris VIII, France12. Fugue on a Theme of Hélène Cixous
Naomi Waltham-Smith, Warwick University, UK13. Ghostvoices in
Hyperdream: Homonymy, Homophony, Repetition
Esther von der Osten, Freie Universität, Germany14. "Write!": Medusa's Cixous
Eric Prenowitz, University of Leeds, UK15. Mdeilmm: Mole Speech (excerpt)
Hélène CixousPart III. Glossary 16. Algériance
Christa Stevens, Independent Scholar17. Appellation
Olivier Morel, University of Notre Dame, USA18. Cry
Naomi Waltham-Smith, Warwick University, UK19. Dream
Olivier Morel, University of Notre Dame, USA20. Libidinal Economies
Christa Stevens, Independent Scholar21. Mole
Nicholas Royle, University of Sussex, UK22. Plusje
Christa Stevens, Independent Scholar23. Puisse
Naomi Waltham-Smith, Warwick University, UK24. The Book
Laura Hughes, Independent ScholarEndnotes Notes on ContributorsIndex
About the author
Peggy Kamuf is Marion Frances Chevalier Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California, USA. She is a principal translator of the work of Jacques Derrida and has edited a number of his seminars. Her published work includes six monographs, and numerous essays and anthologies.
