Helene Cixous: Writing and Sexual Differences

By Abigail Bray and Julian Wolfreys

Abigail Bray offers a lucid and accessible introduction to H l ne Cixous and her theorisation of writing and sexual difference. This book explores the context of feminist debates surrounding Cixous's work and provides a concise explanation of her major philosophical and literary concepts, including the 'other bisexuality', the 'third body', and l' criture feminine. Bray demonstrates, through original and provocative readings of texts by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Clarice Lispector and Angela Carter, the creative potential of Cixous's thought on literature and philosophy.

Reading Cixous alongside Nietzsche, Heidegger, Deleuze and Derrida, Bray argues for a recognition of Cixous as one of the important thinkers of our times.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333922395
• ISBN13: 9780333922392
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.7"