ABSTRACT

This is the first truly representative collection of texts by Helene Cixous. The substantial pieces range broadly across her entire oeuvre, and include essays, works of fiction, lectures and drama. Arranged helpfully in chronological order, the extracts span twenty years of intellectual thought and demonstrate clearly the development of one of the most creative and brilliant minds of the twentieth century.
With a foreword by Jacques Derrida, a preface by Cixous herself, and first-class editorial material by Susan Sellers, The Helene Cixous Reader is destined to become a key text of feminist writing.

chapter |16 pages

Neutral

chapter |8 pages

Inside

chapter |9 pages

First Names of No One

chapter |12 pages

The Newly Born Woman

chapter |9 pages

Breaths

chapter |11 pages

La—The (Feminine)

chapter |11 pages

Angst

chapter |12 pages

To Live the Orange

chapter |12 pages

(With) Or the Art of Innocence

chapter |13 pages

Lemonade Everything Was So Infinite

chapter |10 pages

The Book of Promethea

chapter |9 pages

Extreme Fidelity

chapter |6 pages

Indiada or the India of Their Dreams

chapter |17 pages

Manna to the Mandelstams to the Mandelas

chapter |7 pages

FirstDays of the Year

chapter |8 pages

Deluge

chapter |9 pages

Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing

chapter |14 pages

Afterword