White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text, and Politics (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) - Livres de poche

With some seventy texts in print, Hélène Cixous is widely regarded as one of the most influential contemporary thinkers, but readers have rarely had a chance to explore her interviews, which offer equally compelling and invaluable insight into her philosophy and criticism. Culled from newspapers, journals, and books, White Ink collects the best of these conversations, which address the major concerns of Cixous's critical work. The collection also features two dialogues with twentieth-century intellectuals Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. The interviews in White Ink span more than three decades of Cixous's career, includeing some that have now been translated into English for the first time. Cixous discusses her work and writing process. She shares her views on literature, feminism, theater, autobiography, philosophy, politics, aesthetics, religion, ethics, and human relations, and she reflects on her roles as poet, playwright, professor, woman, Jew, and, her most famous one, "French feminist theorist." Susan Sellers, an established Cixous scholar and translator, organizes White Ink thematically rather than chronologically to show the development of the intellectual's commentary on a series of vital questions. Cixous's easy conversational style provides an excellent starting point for readers who might be new to her work, yet scholars will find their own reward in these revealing performances. Each one is an event in language and thought that epitomizes Cixous's intellectual and poetic force. Contents: Feminine Writing. Liberating Women. Writing and Politics. Writing the Enigma. Writing, Demons, and God. Writing for the Theater. Genesis of the Text. Autobiography. On Race. On Painting, Music, and Poetic Memory. Dialogue 1: With Michel Foucault. Dialogue 2: With Jacques Derrida. And the Future. Bibliographies