$Helene Cixousâs Poetics of Voice : Echoâ"Subjectivityâ"Diffraction - Dr Birgit M. Kaiser$

Helene Cixousâs Poetics of Voice

Echoâ"Subjectivityâ"Diffraction

By: Dr Birgit M. Kaiser

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Paperback | 13 February 2026

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Exploring the poetic fictions of prominent French, feminist writer H©l¨ne Cixous, this open access book highlights rich and timely ideas of selfhood in her work. With careful elaboration of the writerâs relationship with Algeria, Birgit M. Kaiser shows how Cixous reflects on experiences of colonial and patriarchal othering. More than that, she crafts a voice â" an autofictive "I" â" that takes the figure of Echo as a guiding mythology to portray selfhood as diffractive, always already exceeding binary models of self/other that remain central to conceptions of subjectivity. Putting forward the notion of âechologyâ, Kaiser examines how Cixous performs selfhood within ecologies of cohabitation, thereby critiquing and revising key tenets of psychoanalysis and its narrative of the subject.

Drawing from famous texts such as The Laugh of the Medusa, The Newly Born Woman, and The Portrait of Dora, but also more recent titles like Osnabr¼ck, So Close, Death Shall be Dethroned or Cixous's collaborations with Adel Abdessemed, H©l¨ne Cixous's Poetics of Voice: Echo - Subjectivity - Diffraction offers fresh variations on familiar psychoanalytic and semiotic axes, and new ventures into dialogue with feminist new materialisms.

Elegant, politically dynamic and providing exciting news ways into Cixousâs work and poetics, the concept of âechologyâ lends new perspectives for feminist and postcolonial formations of selfhood and new imaginations of what it means to be human within planetary life.

The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Utrecht University.

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