Reveries of the Wild Woman: Primal Scenes [Audiobook] download free by Helene Cixous
- Listen audiobook: Reveries of the Wild Woman: Primal Scenes
- Author: Helene Cixous
- Release date: 2006/8/26
- Publisher: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780810123632
- Rating: 7.4 of 10
- Votes: 324
- Review by: Ashlyn Lytle
- Review rating: 7.66 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/29
- Duration: 1H14M6S in 256 kbps (19.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-02
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, Shorten, WAV, MPEG-4 SLS, WMA, MPEG4, MP3 (compression 7Z, ZIP, RAR, TAR.GZ)
- Total pages original book: 96
- Includes a PDF summary of 9 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 6M58S (1.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: All the time when I lived in Algeria, my native country, I dreamt of one day arriving in Algeria. Born in Oran, Algeria, Helene Cixous spent her childhood in France's former colony. ''Reveries of the Wild Woman'' 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. Born 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. A meditation on postcolonial identity and gender, ''Reveries of the Wild Woman'' is also a poignant recollection of how a girl's childhood is, indeed, author to the woman.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Studies: From C 1900 -, Autobiography: Literary, Biography: General, Jewish Studies, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Biography: Literary, Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers, Memoirs
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 35.49 USD
- Dimensions: 154.94x228.6x8.38mm
- Weight: 167.83g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Evanston, United States
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