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      Interviews on Sex, Text and Politics

      White Ink

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      White Ink book

      Interviews on Sex, Text and Politics
      ByHelene Cixous, Susan Sellers
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2008
      eBook Published 23 December 2014
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315711706
      Pages 224
      eBook ISBN 9781315711706
      Subjects Humanities
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      Cixous, H., & Sellers, S. (2008). White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text and Politics (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315711706

      ABSTRACT

      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, Cixous discusses her books and her creative process, her views on and insights into literature, philosophy, theatre, politics, aesthetics, faith and ethics, human relations and the state of the world. As she responds to interviewers' questions, Cixous is prompted to reflect on her roles and activities as poet, playwright, feminist theorist, professor of literature, philosopher, woman, Jew. Each interview is a remarkable performance, an event in language and thought where Cixous' celebrated intellectual and poetic force can be witnessed 'in action'. The accessibility of the interview format provides an excellent starting-point for readers new to Cixous, while those already familiar with her work will find unexpected insights and fresh elucidations of her thought.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part |2 pages

      Part I: Writing the enigma

      chapter 1|12 pages

      The play of fiction

      chapter 2|11 pages

      The novel today

      chapter 3|4 pages

      Literature suspends death

      chapter 4|19 pages

      In the beginnings, there were many ...

      part |2 pages

      Part II: Writing the feminine

      chapter 5|7 pages

      When I do not write, it is as if I had died

      chapter 6|21 pages

      My text is written in white and black, in “milk and night”

      part |2 pages

      Part III: Writing and politics

      chapter 7|7 pages

      Guardian of language

      chapter 8|7 pages

      Against the emotion of history

      part |2 pages

      Part IV: Writing and theatre

      chapter 9|28 pages

      The author between text and theatre

      part |2 pages

      Part V: Writing roots

      chapter 10|8 pages

      Language is the only refuge

      chapter 11|8 pages

      Being a Jewish woman is the ideal place

      part |2 pages

      Part VI: On painting, music and nature

      chapter 12|3 pages

      You race towards that secret, which escapes

      chapter 13|7 pages

      We must hand our inheritance on

      part |2 pages

      Part VII: Dialogues

      chapter 14|9 pages

      On Marguerite Duras, with Michel Foucault

      chapter 15|14 pages

      From the word to life, with Jacques Derrida

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