An inner journey across space and time linking the "author" to other poets, this lyrical essay-poem continues Helene Cixous's rewriting of notions of boundary, self, other, and author. Cixous here interrogates the status of the author, connecting distant instances of herself with other writers who traverse genders, generations, and national boundaries. First Days of the Year is a celebration of beginnings and future possibilities, based on necessity and hope, constantly mediating writing and living, life and death. Like all of Cixous's profoundly original works, it seductively leads the reader into a new way of thinking by disrupting fixed ideas of psychic identity, subjectivity, and language.
- ISBN10 0816621160
- ISBN13 9780816621163
- Publish Date 1 July 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 January 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Minnesota Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 216
- Language English