First days of the year
By: Hélène Cixous ; translated and with a preface by Catherine A.F. MacGillivray.
Contributors: MacGillivray, Catherine A. F.
Series: Emergent literatures
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Description: An inner journey across space and time linking the "author" to other poets, this lyrical essay-poem continues Helene Cixous's rewriting of notions of boundary, self, other, and author. Cixous here interrogates the status of the author, connecting distant instances of herself with other writers who traverse genders, generations, and national boundaries.

First Days of the Year is a celebration of beginnings and future possibilities, based on necessity and hope, constantly mediating writing and living, life and death. Like all of Cixous's profoundly original works, it seductively leads the reader into a new way of thinking by disrupting fixed ideas of psychic identity, subjectivity, and language.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (189-191).