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- catalog abstract ""Something of a historical event, this book combines loosely "autobiographical" texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. "Savoir," by Helene Cixous, is a brief but densely layered account of her experience of recovered sight after a lifetime of severe myopia, an experience that ends with the unexpected turn of grieving for what is lost. Her literary inventiveness mines the coincidence in French between the two verbs savoir (to know) and voir (to see). Jacques Derrida's "A Silkworm of One's Own" complexly muses on a host of autobiographical, philosophical, and religious motifs including his varied responses to "Savoir." The two texts are accompanied by six beautiful and evocative drawings that play on the theme of drapery over portions of the body." "Veils suspends sexual difference between two homonyms: la voile (sail) and le voile (veil). A whole history of sexual difference is enveloped, sometimes dissimulated here in the folds of sails and veils and in the turns, journeys, and returns of their metaphors and metonymies." "However foreign to each other they may appear, however autonomous they may be, the two texts participate in a common genre: autobiography, confession, memoirs. The future also enters in: by opening to each other, the two discourses confide what is about to happen, the imminence of an event lacking any common measure with them or with anything else, an operation that restores sight and plunges into mourning the knowledge of the previous night, a "verdict" whose threatening secret remains out of reach by our knowledge."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Voiles. English".
- catalog contributor b12255066.
- catalog contributor b12255067.
- catalog contributor b12255068.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Something of a historical event, this book combines loosely "autobiographical" texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. "Savoir," by Helene Cixous, is a brief but densely layered account of her experience of recovered sight after a lifetime of severe myopia, an experience that ends with the unexpected turn of grieving for what is lost. Her literary inventiveness mines the coincidence in French between the two verbs savoir (to know) and voir (to see). Jacques Derrida's "A Silkworm of One's Own" complexly muses on a host of autobiographical, philosophical, and religious motifs including his varied responses to "Savoir." The two texts are accompanied by six beautiful and evocative drawings that play on the theme of drapery over portions of the body." "Veils suspends sexual difference between two homonyms: la voile (sail) and le voile (veil). A whole history of sexual difference is enveloped, sometimes dissimulated here in the folds of sails and veils and in the turns, journeys, and returns of their metaphors and metonymies." "However foreign to each other they may appear, however autonomous they may be, the two texts participate in a common genre: autobiography, confession, memoirs. The future also enters in: by opening to each other, the two discourses confide what is about to happen, the imminence of an event lacking any common measure with them or with anything else, an operation that restores sight and plunges into mourning the knowledge of the previous night, a "verdict" whose threatening secret remains out of reach by our knowledge."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-108).".
- catalog description "Savoir / Heélène Cixous -- A silkworm of one's own / Jacques Derrida.".
- catalog extent "108 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0804737940 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0804737959 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Cultural memory in the present".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog subject "848/.91409 21".
- catalog subject "Feminism and literature France 20th century.".
- catalog subject "PQ2663.I9 V6513 2001".
- catalog subject "a Women authors, French Criticism and interpretation 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Savoir / Heélène Cixous -- A silkworm of one's own / Jacques Derrida.".
- catalog title "Veils / Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida ; translated by Geoffrey Bennington ; with drawings by Ernest Pignon-Ernest.".
- catalog title "Voiles. English".
- catalog type "text".