Hélène Cixous
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Born in 1937 in Algeria, Helene Cixous came to Paris, where she is currently professor of English, in 1955. After a dissertation on James Joyce, The Exile of James Joyce (1968), she began to publish novels, critical essays, and plays, most notably Le Portrait de Dora (1976), a feminist retelling of näytä lisää a Freudian case history. Jacques Derrida has named Helene Cixous the greatest contemporary French writer. Cixous has been an active participant in the development of literary criticism after structuralism and has been a leading figure in the French feminist movement. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset
Readings: The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kakfa, Kleist, Lispector, and Tsvetayeva (1991) 50 kappaletta
Dream I Tell You (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) (2003) 39 kappaletta
The Terrible but Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia (European Women Writers) (1986) 28 kappaletta
The Writing Notebooks of Helene Cixous (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers Series) (2004) 26 kappaletta
The Portable Cixous (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought & Cultural Criticism) (2009) 13 kappaletta
Politics, Ethics and Performance: Hélène Cixous and the Théâtre du Soleil (Anamnesis) (2016) 2 kappaletta
L'Indiade, ou, L'Inde de leurs reves: Et quelques ecrits sur le theatre (French Edition) (1987) 1 kappale
THEATRE DU SOLEIL, l'histoire terrible 1 kappale
Prénoms de personne 1 kappale
Lengua por venir / Langue à venir: Seminario de Barcelona (Ακαδημεια) (Spanish and French Edition) (2004) 1 kappale
Portrait de Dora 1 kappale
Associated Works
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism) (2003) — Avustaja — 26 kappaletta
HOW(ever), Vol. VI, No. 1, January 1990 — Avustaja — 1 kappale
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- Cixous, Hélène
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- Cixous, Hélène
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CIXOUS, Helene - Syntymäaika
- 1937-06-05
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- France
- Syntymäpaikka
- Oran, Algeria
- Asuinpaikat
- Oran, Algeria
Paris, Île-de-France, France
Bordeaux, Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France - Koulutus
- Lycée Lakanal
University of Bordeaux - Ammatit
- professor
critic
novelist
playwright
philosopher
autobiographer (näytä kaikki 7)
feminist - Suhteet
- Derrida, Jacques (friend)
- Organisaatiot
- University of Paris VIII
Northwestern University
University of Bordeaux
University of Nanterre
European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Legion d'Honneur (1994)
Ordre national du Mérite (1998) - Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Hélène Cixous was born in Oran, Algeria, to Jewish parents. Her mother was a refugee from Nazi Germany, and her father came from a family that had reached Algeria after expulsion of Jews from Spain. Hélène, who never thought she was at home in Algeria, often draws on her own and her family's circumstances and life experiences with colonialism and anti-Semitism in her work. She attended secondary school in Algiers. In 1955, she married Guy Berger, a philosophy teacher, with whom she had three children. The couple moved to Paris, where she attended the Lycée Lakanal, in which she was the only North African student in her class. The following year, her husband was assigned a teaching position in Bordeaux, where she began to prepare for the agrégation (highest level teachers' exam) in English literature. She obtained a secondary school teaching diploma in English and then the agrégation soon afterwards. In 1960, she began to work on a thesis on James Joyce and in 1962 was named assistant teacher at the University of Bordeaux. In Paris, she met Jacques Derrida, another Jewish-Algerian-French intellectual. Their talks on James Joyce were the beginning of a lifelong friendship. They co-authored several books and texts on each other's work. In 1963, she made her first trip to the USA, where she did research on Joyce's manuscripts and met Jacques Lacan, with whom she worked regularly on Joyce. In 1964, Hélène and her husband divorced, and a year later she became assistant lecturer at the Sorbonne. In 1967, she published her first book of fiction, Le Prénom du Dieu (God’s First Name) and was appointed full professor at the University of Nanterre. She was charged by the Ministry of Education with creating the experimental University of Paris VIII. Under her leadership, a number of exiled Latin-American writers and groundbreaking scholars such as Gérard Genette, Tzvetan Todorov, and Michel Foucault received teaching positions. With Genette and Todorov, she launched the journal Poétique in 1968. That same year, she finally defended her thesis on James Joyce and earned her Ph.D. She then was named professor of English literature at Paris VIII and won the prestigious Prix Médicis for her second book of fiction, Dedans (Inside). In 1974, she set up the first doctoral program in women’s studies in Europe. In 1975, she published her first play, Portrait de Dora (Portrait of Dora), which was critically acclaimed and ran for a year at the Théâtre d’Orsay. Over the next two decades, she became internationally recognized, and received numerous prestigious awards, including one for helping to promote the works of the Jewish-Russian-Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. She published some 70 works, including 23 volumes of poems, six books of essays, five plays, and numerous scholarly articles. She lectured in Europe, the UK, and the USA. In 1989, she collaborated on the film La Nuit Miraculeuse (The Miraculous Night). She published a series of autobiographical books, exploring relatives and places from her childhood. In 2008, she was appointed Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.
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