Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 03:00:40 -0500
Subject: Re: Helene Cixous


At 11:04 AM 10/7/96 EDT, Alvina Ruprecht wrote:
>atefeho-AT-vms2.macc.wisc.edu writes:
>> 
>>         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...
>> H---------------------
>	Hello...this is a queery...your English translation of Cixous 
>seems a bit
>unclear..."I
>will not until women are NO LONGER ? under such oppression?"" 
>I cant really
>understand what you are saying about Cixous because of YOUR English..or
>perhaps these are typos....   computer writing tends to make us ignore our
>mistakes...we have to write too quickly....  Alvina   Carleton U. Canada

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I will not go back to Algeria untill  women are under oppression.

How does this sound?  By the way these aren't "tansalations" but her own words.
Other "NATIVE speakers in the audiance  got the same  impression.  I
appreciate if they would voice their opinion .

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>> 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
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