Subject: Re: Helene Cixous
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 09:31:27 -0400 (EDT)


Michael,

Any ideas when there might be a similar conference in UK?  

How was the conf at the ICA?  Is the  topic that you are interested - it was one 
that I am hoping to research next year.

Thanks,

Rachel in London
>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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Rachel Hampton
Department of War Studies
Kings College 

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Fax: 44 171 873 2026



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