Editing Hélène Cixous (section)

=== Publications ===
In 1968, Cixous published her doctoral dissertation ''L'Exil de James Joyce ou l'Art du remplacement'' (''The Exile of James Joyce, or the Art of Displacement'') and the following year she published her first novel, ''Dedans'' (''Inside''), a semi-autobiographical work that won the [[Prix Médicis]].<ref name=PoetryFoundation />

She has published widely, including twenty-three volumes of poems, six books of essays, five plays, and numerous influential articles. She published ''Voiles'' (''Veils'') with [[Jacques Derrida]] and her work is often considered [[Deconstruction|deconstructive]]. In introducing her Wellek Lecture, subsequently published as ''Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing'', Derrida referred to her as the greatest living writer in his language (French).<ref>{{cite book  | last = Cixous | first = Hélène | title = Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing | publisher = Columbia University Press | date = 15 April 1994 | location = New York City | isbn = 978-0231076593 }}</ref> Cixous wrote a book on Derrida titled ''Portrait de Jacques Derrida en jeune saint juif'' (''Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint''). Her reading of Derrida finds additional layers of meaning at a [[Phoneme|phonemic]] rather than strictly [[Lexicon|lexical]] level.<ref>Not the same as [[pun]]s, which play on the varied means of a word or phrase or the [[homonym]]s thereof.</ref> In addition to Derrida and Joyce, she has written [[monograph]]s on the work of the Brazilian writer [[Clarice Lispector]], on [[Maurice Blanchot]], [[Franz Kafka]], [[Heinrich von Kleist]], [[Michel de Montaigne]], [[Ingeborg Bachmann]], [[Thomas Bernhard]], and the Russian poet [[Marina Tsvetaeva]]. Cixous is also the author of essays on artists, including [[Simon Hantaï]], [[Pierre Alechinsky]] and [[Adel Abdessemed]] to whom she has devoted two books.

Along with [[Luce Irigaray]] and [[Julia Kristeva]], Cixous is considered one of the mothers of [[Post-structuralism|poststructuralist]] [[feminist theory]].<ref>{{cite news
| title = How many of these great female thinkers have you heard of?
| work = Daily Post (Liverpool)
| page = 12
| date = 11 December 2007
}}</ref>
In the 1970s, Cixous began writing about the relationship between [[human sexuality|sexuality]] and language. Like other poststructuralist feminist theorists, Cixous believes that our sexuality is directly tied to how we communicate in society. In 1975, Cixous published her most influential article "Le Rire de la Méduse" ("The Laugh of the Medusa"), which was revised by her, translated into English by Paula Cohen and Keith Cohen, and released in English in 1976.<ref name=Cixous /> She has published over 70 works; her fiction, dramatic writing, and poetry, however, are not often read in English.<!--Unencyclopedic?: The difficulty of translating her work may be minimally exemplified even by examining the title just discussed.-->