Cixous, Hélène - "The Laugh Of The Medusa"
"The Laugh of the Medusa"
MARGRET BRÜGMANN (ESSAY DATE 1993)
SOURCE: Brügmann, Margret. “Between the Lines: On the Essayistic Experiments of Hélène Cixous in ‘The Laugh of the Medusa,’” translated by Debbi Long. In The Politics of the Essay: Feminist Perspectives, edited by Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres and Elizabeth Mittman, pp. 73-84. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
In the following essay, Brügmann analyzes each section of Cixous’s “The Laugh of the Medusa,” noting parallels between each of the seven sections and the biblical account of the seven days of creation.
Mirror Games
When I was small, I knew a magic place. When I was alone, I would go into my parents’ bedroom and stand in front of my mother’s dressing table. It was a familiar piece of furniture which aroused associations with the hall of mirrors at the...
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