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MORAG SHIACH (ESSAY DATE 1991)

SOURCE: Shiach, Morag. Introduction to Helene Cixous: A Politics of Writing, pp. 1-5. London: Routledge, 1991.

In the following essay, Shiach appraises both the feminine form and feminist content of Cixous’s writings and highlights the relationships between politics, sexuality, philosophy, and literature in Cixous’s works.

Hélène Cixous is a contemporary French writer, critic, and theorist, whose works span a number of genres and address a wide range of problems which have preoccupied the disciplines of English and French Studies over the last twenty years. In France she is best known as the author of a large number of avant-garde fictions and theatrical texts. Her early work has been placed in relation to the nouveau roman, with its investigation of the materiality of writing, of the complexity of subjectivity, and of the transgressive potential of the literary...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. HéLèNe Cixous (Essay Date 1975)
4. General Commentary
   1. Verena Andermatt Conley (Essay Date 1984)
   2. Morag Shiach (Essay Date 1991)
5. Title Commentary
   1. "The Laugh of the Medusa"
   2. Illa
6. Further Reading
7. Copyright

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