Volleys of humanity
Subtitle: essays 1972- 2009
By: Hélène Cixous ; edited by Eric Prenowitz
Series: The frontiers of theory
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780748639038
Subjects: French essays; Translations into English
Description: This collection of texts by Hélène Cixous brings together a range of important untranslated as well as four previously unpublished essays. These essays deal with literature, politics history, Algeria, and the university and include works from Cixous' most significant contributions to literary criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Essays in English; four previously unpublished in the original French, five published in English for the first time, and two revised translations.
Table of contents: title: Fiction and its phantoms : a reading of Freud's Das Unheimliche (The "uncanny"); title: The character of "character"; title: Missexuality : where come I play?; title: The pleasure reinciple, or, Paradox lost; title: Reaching the point of wheat, or, A portrait of the artist as a maturing woman; title: Letter to Zohra Drif; title: The names of Oran; title: The book as one of its own characters; title: How not to speak of Algeria; title: The Oklahoma Nature Theater is recruiting; title: The book I don't write; title: The unforeseeable; title: Passion Michel Foucault; title: Promised cities; title: Volleys of humanity.