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Podcast: Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
Episode: HÊlène Cixous : Well-Kept Ruins
Description: Todayâs guest is poet, novelist, playwright, feminist theorist, literary critic, and philosopher HĂŠlène Cixous. Perhaps best known for her iconic 1976 essay âThe Laugh of the Medusa,â Cixous thought for much of her writing life that she would never write about her birthplace and childhood in Algeria, that she would never write about her mother, that she would never write about, let alone go to, the German town of OsnabrĂźck from which her mother and motherâs mother escaped (to Algeria) before the townâs entire Jewish population were murdered. But in the last thirty years, to her surpri...