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""Rootprints generates further, infinitely open-ended, questions, or a dialogue between two contemporary women authors that is also an intimate conversation between two kindred souls on some of art or life's most vital concerns (for example; love, desire, death, mourning, and creativity)."
-"Hypatia, Fall 2002
""Rootprints is a most important book, which should prompt younger readers and new scholars to approach Cixous's works from a more diversified viewpoint.."
-"University of Toronto Quarterly
"In these edited dialogs, Cixous, known in the English-speaking world chiefly as a literary theorist and political activist, is given an opportunity to chat about her fiction, theater, and, most interesting of all, her family...Cixous came from a family of German-speaking Central European Jews who settled in Algeria. Her father was a physician and her mother a midwife in Oran, the site of Camus's "The Plague. This work is truly indispensible for filling in the gaps of Cixous's imaginative biograohy of her father...Effectively translated, this is rcommended for larger public and academic collections."
-"Library Journal, 1 September 1997
-"Hypatia, Fall 2002
""Rootprints is a most important book, which should prompt younger readers and new scholars to approach Cixous's works from a more diversified viewpoint.."
-"University of Toronto Quarterly
"In these edited dialogs, Cixous, known in the English-speaking world chiefly as a literary theorist and political activist, is given an opportunity to chat about her fiction, theater, and, most interesting of all, her family...Cixous came from a family of German-speaking Central European Jews who settled in Algeria. Her father was a physician and her mother a midwife in Oran, the site of Camus's "The Plague. This work is truly indispensible for filling in the gaps of Cixous's imaginative biograohy of her father...Effectively translated, this is rcommended for larger public and academic collections."
-"Library Journal, 1 September 1997
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Helene Cixous is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and innovative contemporary thinkers. Published here in English for the first time Helene Cixous, Rootprints is an ideal introduction to Cixous's theory and her fiction, tracing her development as a writer and intellectual whose remarkable prespicacity and electrifying poetic force are known world-wide.
Unprecedented in its form and content this collection breaks new ground in the theory and practice of auto/biography. Cixous's creative reflections on the past provide occasion for scintillating forays into the future.
The text includes:
* an extended interview between Cixous and Calle-Gruber, exploring Cixous's creative and intellectual processes
* a revealing collection of photographs taken from Cixous's family album, set against a poetic reflection by the author
* selections from Cixous's private notebooks
* a contribution by Jacques Derrida
* original 'thing-pieces' by Calle-Gruber.
Unprecedented in its form and content this collection breaks new ground in the theory and practice of auto/biography. Cixous's creative reflections on the past provide occasion for scintillating forays into the future.
The text includes:
* an extended interview between Cixous and Calle-Gruber, exploring Cixous's creative and intellectual processes
* a revealing collection of photographs taken from Cixous's family album, set against a poetic reflection by the author
* selections from Cixous's private notebooks
* a contribution by Jacques Derrida
* original 'thing-pieces' by Calle-Gruber.
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