Perturbación y estallido: La 'escritura feminista' de Hélène Cixous y la retórica del idealismo material

Resumen

In this paper, I explore Hélène Cixous’s theory of écriture féminine as applied to her texts, specifically «The Laugh of the Medusa», The Book of Promethea, and Portrait of Dora. I use «Coming to Writing» as well as The Newly Born Woman, coauthored with Catherine Clement, as sources to understand and unpack écriture féminine. This is first done by defining écriture féminine over and against mastery; then it is viewed in a Saussurian linguistic scope as a dis/eruptive force. As such, it introduces the notion of the newly born woman, which I locate within the historical lineage of the hysteria and literary lineage of utopia. Last, I deny the claim of various critics that Cixous is only an idealist and assert that écriture féminine is a rhetoric of material idealism.