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Twists and Turns in the Heart s Antarctic is a compelling new volume in H l ne Cixous s search for lost time Readers of earlier volumes Hemlock and Hyperdream among others will reconnect with familiar characters Eve the elderly mother now in her hundredth year H l ne the daughter who never expected to become a mother at 70 and the brother childhood companion and rival She has almost no time to write You hate me You hate me someone shouts You want me dead Is that a revolver on the table Bang Shot or door slammed The brother storms out The Family is destroying itself Twists and Turns like all Cixous s books is a many faceted text whose narrative spins its webs in corners familiar to Cixous readers corners with books and writers Montaigne Proust Kafka Derrida a theater and plays friendship and love It is a tale on the scale of Greek myth about the inescapable entanglements of family relationships that can lead one in hyperbolic mode to envision murder and suicide for as Cixous writes with love s force one hates And yet everything twists and turns this is a tale with profoundly touching reversals Twists and Turns in the Heart s AntarcticH l ne Cixous is a Jewish French Algerian born feminist well known as one of the founders of poststructuralist feminist theory along with Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva She is now a professor of English Literature at University of Paris VIII and chairs the Centre de Recherches en Etudes F minines which she founded in 1974:
Pdf twists and turns in the heart's antarctica She has published numerous essays playwrights novels poems and literary criticism Her academic works concern subjects of feminism the human body history death and theatre..
