{"product_id":"reveries-of-the-wild-woman-primal-scenes-9780810123632","title":"Reveries of the Wild Woman: Primal Scenes","description":"\u003ci\u003eAll the time when I lived in Algeria, my native country, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI dreamt of one day arriving in Algeria.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in Oran, Algeria, H?l?ne Cixous spent her childhood in France's former colony. \u003ci\u003eReveries of the Wild Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is her visceral memoir of a preadolescence that shaped her with intense feelings of alienation, yet also contributed, in a paradoxically essential way, to her development as a writer and philosopher. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn to a French father and an Austro-German mother, both Jews, Cixous experienced a childhood fraught with racial and gender crisis. In her moving story she recounts how small events--a new dog, the gift of a bicycle--reverberate decades later as symbols filled with social and psychological meaning. She and her family endure a double alienation, by Algerians for being French and by the French for being Jewish, and Cixous builds her story on the themes of isolation and exclusion she felt in particular under the Vichy government and during the Algerian Civil War. Yet she also concedes that memories of Algeria awaken in her a longing for her home country, and ponders how that stormy relationship has influenced her life and thought. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA meditation on postcolonial identity and gender, \u003ci\u003eReveries of the Wild Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is also a poignant recollection of how a girl's childhood is, indeed, author to the woman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eH?L?NE CIXOUS\u003c\/b\u003e is a French writer, feminist philosopher, playwright, critic, and activist who continues to influence writers, scholars, and feminists around the world. Her recent works include \u003ci\u003eReveries of the Wild Woman\u003c\/i\u003e (Northwestern, forthcoming), \u003ci\u003eThe Third Body\u003c\/i\u003e (Northwestern, 1999), \u003ci\u003eVeils\u003c\/i\u003e (with Jacques Derrida) (Stanford, 2001), \u003ci\u003ePortrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint\u003c\/i\u003e (Columbia, 2003), and \u003ci\u003eThe Writing Notebooks of H?l?ne Cixous\u003c\/i\u003e (Continuum, 2004). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBEVERLEY BIE BRAHIC\u003c\/b\u003e is also the translator of H?l?ne Cixous's \u003ci\u003eThe Day I Wasn't There.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872863785234,"sku":"9780810123632","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1a8b19d2-49dc-4842-a8b8-d816ef205fe5.jpg?v=1737913267","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reveries-of-the-wild-woman-primal-scenes-9780810123632","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}