Reveries of the wild woman : primal scenes
Hélène Cixous (Author), Beverley Bie Brahic (Translator)
"Born to an Algerian-French father and a German mother, both Jews, Hélène Cixous experienced a childhood fraught with racial and gender crises. In this moving story she recounts how small domestic events - a new dog, the gift of a bicycle - reverberate decades later with social and psychological meaning. The story's protagonist, whose life resembles that of the author, endures a double alienation: from Algerians because she is French and from the French because she is Jewish. The isolation and exclusion Cixous and her family feel, especially under the Vichy government and during the Algerian War of independence, underpin this heartbreaking but also warmly human and often funny story."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper
Print Book, English, 2006
Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill., 2006