Portrait of H.C. as J.D. and Back

Milesi, Laurent ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4112-3499 2006. Portrait of H.C. as J.D. and Back. New Literary History 37 (1) , pp. 51-70. 10.1353/nlh.2006.0025

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Abstract

The essay sets out to explore in three interrelated thematic scenes or tableaux, and in the light of the increasingly numerous textual crossings between them, how Derrida (J. D.) and Cixous (H. C.) write (self-)portraits of themselves as other in their fictional encounters, one of whose central restagings is the inaugural, asymmetrical first-time meeting "face to back" (H. C. seeing J. D. with his back turned, not seeing her). Working through convoluted threads of linguistic play in French involving seeing (or blindness) [voir], knowing [savoir], (not) having [avoir] and being, the Jew as foreign or other being [autre, être] "to the letter" [lettre], etc., this study analyzes how these textual portraits can be framed within, or read against, a broad philosophical tradition (Descartes, Hegel) linking them to withdrawal [retrait] of being and of themselves as impossible gifts for the other in substitution.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
ISSN:	0028-6087
Last Modified:	13 Jan 2023 02:09
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/3650

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