Archival Afterlives: Cixous, Derrida, and the Matter of Friendship

by Laura Hughes

Book Overview

A capacious analysis of a legendary intellectual friendship and the material legacies it left behind

Over the course of their decades-long friendship, H l ne Cixous and Jacques Derrida assembled overlapping archives of written experiments and exchanges that document a shared interest in their literary afterlives. In this incisive account, Laura Hughes shows how pushing against the limits of writing and of life itself means not only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810146274
• ISBN13: 9780810146273
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 288 Pages