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Hélène Cixous (born 1937) is a French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher and literary critic. She was born, and grew up, in Algeria, in a German Jewish family. She is a professor of English literature at the University of Paris-VIII, which she helped to found (and whose center for women's studies, the first of its kind in Europe, she founded). She has published widely, including twenty-three volumes of poems, six books of essays, five plays, and numerous influential articles. Along with Julia KristevaJulia Kristeva is a famous contemporary Bulgarian philosopher who lives and works in France. Life and work to be added A useful introduction can be found on. Bibliography In English, from http://www. text-semiotics. org/Kristeva. html#eng Kristeva et al., Cixous is one of the best-known of the late-20th-century " French feministsFrench feminism (which is a phrase mostly used in English-speaking countries) refers to the work of a group of feminists in France from the 1970s to the early 1990s. French feminism, compared to Anglophone feminism, is distinguished by an approach which i". She has also published with Jacques DerridaJacques Derrida ( July 15, 1930 October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French literary critic and philosopher of Jewish descent, considered the first to develop " deconstruction". Positioning Derrida's thought Derrida had a significant effect on continenta and her work is often considered part of deconstructionIn Continental philosophy and literary criticism, deconstruction is a school of criticism created by the French post-structuralist philosopher Jacques Derrida. Derrida offered what he called deconstructive readings of Western philosophers. Roughly speakin.Cixous is best known to English readers for her 1975Events January January 1 Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up and are sentenced to 30 months to 8 years in jail on February 21 January 5 The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, i essay "The Laugh of the Medusa" and her later book The Newly Born Woman. Her fiction, dramatic writing, and poetry are not often read in English, and much of this work has not been translated from the original French.
"The Laugh of the Medusa," an extremely literary essay, is well-known as an exhortation to a feminine mode of writing (the phrases "white ink" and " écriture féminine " are often cited, referring to this desired new way of writing). It is a strident critique of " logocentrismLogocentrism also called phallogocentrism is a term used in Deconstruction (a postmodern form of philosophy and literary criticism) to refer to the perceived tendency of Western thought to locate the center of any discourse within the logos (speech and wo" and " phallogocentrism," having much in common with Jacques Derrida's writing of the time. The essay also calls for an acknowledgement of universal bisexuality, or polymorphous perversity , which is clearly a precursor of queer theory's later emphases; and it swiftly rejects many kinds of essentialism which were still common in Anglo-American feminism at the time.
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