Hélène Cixous and Écriture Féminine

Hélène Cixous was born in Oran, Algeria, in 1937 — the daughter of a Jewish doctor and a German Jewish refugee mother. She grew up between languages, cultures, and identities that the colonial world around her was constantly trying to erase. Not unlike Sylvia Plath, the untimely death of her father, when Cixous was eleven, was perhaps the great defining trauma of her life. She moved to France at the age of 18 and enrolled at the University of Paris (Sorbonne). Cixous graduated with a Doctorat ès lettres in 1968 with a thesis on James Joyce. She became one of the most important literary and philosophical voices of the twentieth century, cofounding the experimental University of Paris VIII alongside Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. She has written more than seventy works — novels, plays, poetry, and essays. Cixous' philosophy of écriture féminine is at the foundation of the audio course for women writers, Writing Wounds into Grace stan.store/womenwriters

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