Table of Contents

0. "Helene Cixous, in Art as in Dreams", Joana Maso and Marta Segarra; 1. "Paintings"; 2. "Spero's Dissidances"; 3. "Ernest's Imagic"; 4. "See the Neverbeforeseen"; 5. "Portraits of Portraits. The Very Day/Light of Roni Horn"; 6. "K-A Notebook"; 7. "Shit, No Present: Faecetious Serrrano"; 8. "Inheriting/Inventing with Jeffrey Gibson"; 9. "Filming the Invisible Becoming"; 10. "Sonia Rykiel in Translation"; 11. "The Train Stop, or Anna's Resurrections".

About the Author

Helene Cixous is Director of the Centre d'Etudes Feminines at Universite Paris VIII, Emerita. one of the foremost intellectuals and creative writers in France, and a major figure in the emergence and global spread of postmodern literary theory, late-20th-century Continental Thought, and Women's Studies. She is the author of more than 40 novels, 14 plays and 15 volumes of theory and essays. Her work has been translated into more than 20 languages, including Japanese, Korean, Hindi and Urdu. Marta Segarra is Professor of French literature and Gender Studies, and director of the Centre Women and Literature at the University of Barcelona (Spain). She specializes in French and Francophone contemporary literature, deconstruction and feminist theory, and postcolonial studies. Her most recent books are: Demenageries. Thinking (of) Animals after Derrida (co-ed. A.E. Berger, 2011), Nouvelles romancieres francophones du Maghreb (2010), The Portable Cixous (ed., 2010), Traces du desir (2008). Joana Maso is Assistant Professor at the University of Barcelona and Associate Scholar at the Centre Women and Literature. She has translated into Spanish texts by Helene Cixous, Jacques Derrida, Catherine Malabou, Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-Luc Nancy. She has edited the following books on or by Helene Cixous: Cixous sous X (with M.-D. Garnier, 2010), Peinetures. Ecrits sur l'art (with M. Segarra, Paris, 2010) and its Spanish translation, Poetas en pintura. Escritos sobre arte de Rembrandt a Nancy Spero (2010) and La llengua m'es l'unic refugi (ed., 2009).

Reviews

An important collection of essays on art by one of France's leading writers and literary figures. -- Mairead Hanrahan, Department of French, University College London It will likely surprise and delight English readers to realize the extent of Cixous' engagement with contemporary arts, in particular painting, photography and film, one that has been frequent, sustained and especially intense over the last few years. -- Peggy Kamuf, Department of French, University of Southern California An important collection of essays on art by one of France's leading writers and literary figures. It will likely surprise and delight English readers to realize the extent of Cixous' engagement with contemporary arts, in particular painting, photography and film, one that has been frequent, sustained and especially intense over the last few years.