The Day I Wasn't There
The feminist writer explores the extreme borders of motherhood and humanity In this memoir-novel, a narrator who resembles Helene Cixous obsessively recounts an incident-the premature death of her first born child, a Down's Syndrome baby left in the care of the clinic in Algeria where her midwife mother works. She uses this event to probe her family history and her relationship with her mother, a refugee from Nazi Germany; her dead father, after whom the baby is named; and her medical-student brother, who takes on some of the duties of a father figure. Cixous's elusive writing bears all the trademarks of her poetic, provocative style, vivid w…
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Weitere Autoren: Brahic, Beverley Bie (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8101-2364-9
- EAN: 9780810123649
- Produktnummer: 2256798
- Verlag: Northwestern University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 112 S.
- Masse: H15.3 cm x B23.2 cm x D1.3 cm 190 g
- Gewicht: 190
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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