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  • Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem

    A Memoir

    by Hélène Cixous ...
    Translated by Peggy Kamuf ...
    An inventive blend of memoir and family history that ponders those who didn't flee their German town in time: "Powerfully reclaimed—and imagined—reality." — The Jewish ChronicleWinner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and TranslationFor about eighty years, the Jonas family of Osnabrück were part of a small but vibrant Jewish community in this mid-size city of Lower Saxony. After ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rêvoir

    by Hélène Cixous ...
    Translated by Beverley Bie Brahic ...
    Series series The French List
    A genre-defying account of confinement and its literary echoes through history.As the pandemic sweeps through Paris in March 2020, the writer HC faces a choice: stay in Paris or flee to the countryside? The weight of historical responses bears down on her—those of her ancestors and Jewish writers during moments of persecution.Still uncertain, she flees to the country at the last moment, with her ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Mdeilmm

    Mole Speech

    by Hélène Cixous ...
    Translated by Peggy Kamuf ...
    Series series The French List
    Weaving together history, literature, and personal experience, this recent book from a master of literature crafts a mesmerizing exploration of language, loss, and the enduring power of the spirit world.The strange word “Mdeilmm” was reported to have been uttered by the spirit of Shakespeare when called up during a séance in 1854 at the instigation of the French poet Victor Hugo. Hugo was then ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Selected Plays of Hélène Cixous

    by Hélène Cixous ...
    Cixous' work as a playwright - working mainly with Theatre du Soleil and their director Ariane Mnouchkine - establishes her as a participant in some of the most adventurous European theatre making of the last 40 years. This collection brings together for the first time, four translations into English of Helene Cixous' plays. It is a unique and extraordinary resource for scholars, students and ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Manhattan

    Letters from Prehistory

    by Hélène Cixous ...
    Translated by Beverley Bie Brahic ...
    Manhattan is the tale of a young French scholar who travels to the United States in 1965 on a Fulbright Fellowship to consult the manuscripts of beloved authors. In Yale University’s Beinecke Library, tantalized by the conversational and epistolary brilliance of a fellow researcher, she is lured into a picaresque and tragic adventure. Meanwhile, back in France, her children and no-nonsense mother ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Stigmata

    Escaping Texts

    by Hélène Cixous ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    A 'wilful extremist' according to the London Times, Hélène Cixous is hailed as one of the most formidable writers and thinkers of our time. Acclaimed by luminaries such as Jacques Derrida, her writing has nonetheless been misunderstood and misread, to a surprising extent. With the inclusion of Stigmata, one of her greatest works into the Routledge Classics series, this is about to change. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Mother Homer is Dead

    by Helene Cixous ...
    Series series The Frontiers of Theory

    $27.29 USD

  • Stigmata

    Escaping Texts

    by Hélène Cixous ...
    Hèléne Cixous -- author, playwright and French feminist theorist -- is a key figure in twentieth-century literary theory. Stigmata brings together her most recent essays for the first time.Acclaimed for her intricate and challenging writing style, Cixous presents a collection of texts that get away -- escaping the reader, the writers, the book. Cixous's writing pursues authors such as Stendhal, ... Read more

    $171.99 USD

  • Hélène Cixous, Rootprints

    Memory and Life Writing

    by Mireille Calle-Gruber, Hélène Cixous ...
    Helene Cixous is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and innovative contemporary thinkers. Published here in English for the first time Helene Cixous, Rootprints is an ideal introduction to Cixous's theory and her fiction, tracing her development as a writer and intellectual whose remarkable prespicacity and electrifying poetic force are known world-wide.Unprecedented in its form and content ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • White Ink

    Interviews on Sex, Text and Politics

    by Helene Cixous, Susan Sellers ...
    Helene Cixous is widely regarded as one of the world's most influential feminist writers and thinkers. "White Ink" brings together her most revealing interviews, available in English for the first time. Spanning over four decades and including a new interview with the editor Susan Sellers, this collection presents a brilliant, running commentary on the subjects at the heart of Cixous' writing.Here ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • French Feminism Reader

    by Simone de Beauvoir, Michele Le Doeuff, Christine Delphy, Colette Guillaumin, Monique Wittig, Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous ...
    French Feminism Reader is a collection of essays representing the authors and issues from French theory most influential in the American context. The book is designed for use in courses, and it includes illuminating introductions to the work of each author. These introductions include biographical information, influences and intellectual context, major themes in the author's work as a whole, and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Naphtalene

    A Novel of Baghdad

    by Alia Mamdouh, F. A. Haidar ...
    Translated by Peter Theroux ...
    Series series Women Writing the Middle East
    Seen through the eyes of a strong-willed and perceptive young girl, Naphtalene beautifully captures the atmosphere of Baghdad in the 1940s and 1950s. Through her rich and lyrical descriptions, Alia Mamdouh vividly recreates a city of public steam baths, roadside butchers, and childhood games played in the same streets where political demonstrations against British colonialism are beginning to take ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus