Subject: Re: Helene Cixous
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:10:53 -0000


Comrades,

Last time i saw and heard Helene Cixous in London (at the ICA) she appeared
to be very committed to feminine writing and telling. But that was a little
while ago. And people change, as they say...

However, there was, mention on this List about an Algeria conference where
Cixous and Derrida were both booked to speak. Maybe a subscriber attended,
or knows of where we could obtain copies of the papers, transcripts or
reports, they could let us know?

Regards,
__________________________
Michael Jovic
Hertfordshire, England

"Love is a play with short acts 
and long intermissions." 
     Lara Reisner

"Just because you're paranoid, 
don't mean they're not after you."
      Kurt Cobain
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> From: Rachel Hampton <rachel.hampton-AT-kcl.ac.uk>
> To: postcolonial-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
> Subject: Re: Helene Cixous
> Date: 07 October 1996 13:03
> 
> 
> >        Helene Cixous was invited to Madison campus (and paid  $10.000) 
> for her
> >about 1 h. of speak and what was supposed to be a seminar on her work (1
> >+1/2).  Here is what  I found interesting.  I liked to share it with
you:
> >
> >Once asked if she was back to Alegeria at all? she replied: "No and I
will
> >not until women are under such an oppression.  "But" I went to Tunisia,
> >right next door."  many people asked themselves: well, you mean women
are
> >treated better in Tunisia?  What about the W2 right here. etc... etc...
> >
> >The day after in her seminar, once asked about her writing in the 70's,
she
> >said:
> >"I never belived that such thing as "feminine writing" exists.  I have
been
> >misquoted."
> >
> >What do you think?
> >
> >Atefeh
> >Az Khak Bar'amadim-o- Bar Khak Shodym
> >
> >Atefeh,
> 
> Surely, if Cixous expounds this belief then she is negating most of her
work - I 
> have read Cixous purely because she believs in the feminine voice.  Maybe

> what you have written has been taken out of context - or maybe I have 
> misunderstood - whatever, the reason, I will need to review my reading of

> Cixous.
> 
> I would love to know more about thhe seminar though.
> 
> 
> Rachel in London
> >
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> 
> Rachel Hampton
> Department of War Studies
> Kings College 
> 
> Telephone: 44 171 873 2200
> Fax: 44 171 873 2026
> 
> 
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