TY - JOUR

T1 - Of force and the future - Hélène Cixous's poematic 'might'

AU - Dawson, Mark

PY - 2011/12/31

Y1 - 2011/12/31

N2 - This essay reads Hélène Cixous's Le jour où je n'étais pas là as both an experience of, and experiment in, the writing of a certain poematic 'might'. Following Jacques Derrida's reading of Cixous's work in H. C. pour la vie, c'est à dire . . ., it suggests that such a 'might' allows us to hear and understand what nevertheless remains to be heard and understood. It argues, then, that at both a performative and narrative level, reading Cixous's text allows us to listen to the sound of what remains to-come.

AB - This essay reads Hélène Cixous's Le jour où je n'étais pas là as both an experience of, and experiment in, the writing of a certain poematic 'might'. Following Jacques Derrida's reading of Cixous's work in H. C. pour la vie, c'est à dire . . ., it suggests that such a 'might' allows us to hear and understand what nevertheless remains to be heard and understood. It argues, then, that at both a performative and narrative level, reading Cixous's text allows us to listen to the sound of what remains to-come.

U2 - 10.3366/olr.2011.0015

DO - 10.3366/olr.2011.0015

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:84055193504

VL - 33

SP - 151

EP - 165

JO - Oxford Literary Review

JF - Oxford Literary Review

SN - 0305-1498

IS - 2

ER -