Dream I Tell You / / Hélène Cixous, Beverley Bie Brahic.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Cixous, Hélène,; Bie Brahic, Beverley,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Frontiers of Theory : FRTH
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)

This book is an account of, and commentary on, a collection of dreams by the novelist, playwright and theorist Hélène Cixous. As such the book presents a rich poetic experience and is a key document in understanding Cixous' writing practice. Jacques Derrida's commentary on Dream I Tell You is published in 'The Frontiers of Theory' series as Geneses, Genealogies, Genres and Genius.Key FeaturesImportance of Helene Cixous to contemporary literary and French feminist theory.The poetic, autobiographical quality of the writing.Significance of the book to the Cixous oeuvre.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Series Editor's Preface -- Forewarnings -- Immense dream My father's daughter -- A long symposium -- At home at others' -- An evening with Heidegger -- The real child (the trustful child unaware that one sometimes forgets about her) -- The innocent -- Dream of the marvellous photos -- Such a desire to go to Oran -- With the dead, in the underworld -- Tour of the Concentration Camp -- In spite of his death, my father -- High in the mountains -- Papa -- A brief moment of grace -- Rue de la Libération -- The tomb of J.D. -- Bombarded -- A delivery -- Small invasion -- Naïveté -- The bad cat and the madman -- A trap of a festival -- One noon -- The imitation of love -- When one doesn't know (what) one is dreaming -- Strange waking with snow -- Hedgehog adoption -- Children, absentmindedly -- Thessie my concern -- Frankreich -- Translator's Note