Hélène Cixous
Hélène Cixous · Arts & Literature
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1937, Oran, French Algeria
Algeria · France
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Hélène Cixous is a French writer, playwright and literary theorist, a founder of feminist literary criticism whose 1975 essay 'The Laugh of the Medusa' called for écriture féminine, women's writing. She co-founded the experimental university at Vincennes (Paris VIII) and has written novels, plays and essays. Born in Oran to a Sephardi-Jewish father and an Ashkenazi-Jewish mother, she is Jewish.
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