Volleys of humanity : essays 1972- 2009 / Hélène Cixous ; edited by Eric Prenowitz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fiction and its phantoms : a reading of Freud's Das Unheimliche (The "uncanny") -- The character of "character" -- Missexuality : where come I play? -- The pleasure reinciple, or, Paradox lost -- Reaching the point of wheat, or, A portrait of the artist as a maturing woman -- Letter to Zohra Drif -- The names of Oran -- The book as one of its own characters -- How not to speak of Algeria -- The Oklahoma Nature Theater is recruiting -- The book I don't write -- The unforeseeable -- Passion Michel Foucault -- Promised cities -- Volleys of humanity.

Essays in English; four previously unpublished in the original French, five published in English for the first time, and two revised translations.

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A new collection from one of the most famous and influential French theorists. These 15 essays - 6 previously unpublished even in French and 5 published in English for the first time - span nearly 40 years of Cixous' writing. Here, she ranges over literature, philosophy, politics and culture in what she calls her 'autobibliography'. Key Features. Considers a wide variety of writers, including Proust, Kleist, Lispector, Joyce, Shakespeare and Stendhal Each essay is accompanied by references and commentary

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