Cixous, Hélène (1937–)

List of works

	Cixous, H. (1974) Prénoms de personne, Paris: Éditions du Seuil. (Collection of early essays on Freud, Joyce, Kleist and Poe.)
	Cixous, H. (1975) La Jeune Née, with Catherine Clément, Paris: Christian Bourgois; trans. B. Wing, The Newly Born Woman, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1986. (A militant essay that focuses on the previous exclusion of women from cultural discourses and invents new cultural practices through writing.)
	Cixous, H. (1979) ‘L’Approche de Clarice Lispector’, Poétique 40; trans. D. Jensen, in Coming to Writing and Other Essays, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (A reading of Lispector’s ‘feminine writing’. A marked shift toward Heidegger in its general use of language and the use of a notion of approach.)
	Cixous, H. (1985) L’Histoire terrible mais inachevée de Norodom Sihanouk, roi du Cambodge, Paris: Théâtre du Soleil; trans. J. MacCannell, J. Pike and L. Groth, The Terrible but Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. (King Sihanouk’s generous attempt to save his country from political fanatics and technocrats out to destroy it.)
	Cixous, H. (1987) L’Indiade ou l’Inde de leurs rêves, Paris: Théâtre du Soleil. (Gandhi’s politics of renunciation, non-violence and ‘maternal’ love triumph over the adversaries’ cravings for personal power that lead to death and destruction.)
	Cixous, H. (1988) Manne, Paris: Éditions des Femmes; trans. C. MacGillivray, Manna, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. (A denunciation of apartheid and the gulag as tribute to the courage of Nelson and Winnie Mandela, Osip and Nadezhda Mandelstam, and the Russian poetess Anna Akhmatova. A study of the relation between poetry and history.)

References and further reading

All these works are expository, non-technical and accessible.

	Conley, V.A. (1984) Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine, Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, expanded edn, 1991. (A critical, introductory study especially of Cixous’ early writings. Contains interview.)
	MacGillivray, C. (1994) ‘Introduction’ to Manna, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. (A helpful, close reading of Cixous’ textual strategies.)
	Mauss, M. (1925) Essai sur le don, Paris: Alcan, L’année sociologique; trans. I. Cunnison, The Gift, New York: W.W. Norton, 1967. (The first systematic study of the custom of exchanging gifts as part of all human, personal relationships between individuals and groups.)
	Moi, T. (1985) ‘Hélène Cixous: An Imaginary Utopia’, in Sexual/Textual Politics, London: Methuen. (A critical reading of Cixous’ ‘essentialism’.)
	Sellers, S. (1988) Writing Differences, Milton Keynes: Open University Press. (A collection of textual readings by Cixous and her seminar participants. Includes interview.)
	Shiach, M. (1992) Hélène Cixous: The Politics of Writing, London and New York: Routledge. (Focuses on the relations between feminism and writing. Deals with the theatre.)