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Minneapolis. 1990. University Of Minnesota Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good. No Dustjacket As Issued. 0816618283. Translated from the French by Verena Andermatt Conley. 169 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Brazil Latin America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The pages that follow have been excerpted from HElène Cixous's ongoing meditations between 1986 and 1985 on problems of reading, writing, difference, and related themes, including exchange and the gift, love and passion, poverty and riches, The texts gathered are all readings of Clarice Lispector or, rather, readings by Cixous with Lispector in the context of seminars given at the UniversitE de Paris VIII-Vincennes at Saint Denis and at the College International de Philosophie. This in part dictates the format of the texts and an ordering reflective of Cixous's preoccupations rather than one that would follow Lispector's chronology as a writer, Cixous discovers Lispector at a time when she studies questions of sexual difference in connection with what have been called libidinal economies, that is, with ways the body is engaged in exchanging with and finding its limits in, a social world. Paradoxically, Cixous begins her reading of Lispector with one of the Brazilian writer's later texts, Agua viva (The Stream of Life). CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Introduction by Verena Andermatt Conley. inventory #17277.
