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Hélène Cixous - Videos

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Excerpt of a TV feature on Cixous, including very brief clips of Cixous giving lectures at the L'université populaire et participative sur le travail, speaking at the Berlin Institute for Critical Inquiry, and discussing with Yasmine Chouaki. (in French)

Hélène Cixous lectures on Nurith Aviv's film 'Langue sacrée, langue parlée'. (in French). Cixous reflects on the 'breath of life' in the writing of Hebrew, which is not to be found in the writing of French, the relation between the language one writes and the language itself.

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An interview with Cixous, on the universality of great thought discussing Derrida, Ghandi and more, but also the paucity of women permitted into the Pantheon.

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Helene Cixous, Algeria-born French intellectual, novelist, playwright, memoirist and prose poet delivering a personal account of her work, writing, the process of writing, the conditions of creativity, endurance, a marathon of creation, a journey you cant leave. New York State Writers Institute. State University of New York. April 24, 2007