Mother Homer is Dead by Helene Cixous (Paperback Book)

Name: Mother Homer is Dead by Helene Cixous (Paperback Book)
Brand: Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press

H\u00E9l\u00E8ne Cixous chronicles the last six months of her mother\u2019s life, transgressing the mother-daughter relation in the experience of dyingMother Homer is Dead was written in the immediate aftermath of the death of the writer\u2019s mother in the 103rd year of her life. \u00C8ve Cixous, n\u00E9e Klein, has figured centrally in her daughter\u2019s writing since the publication of Osnabr\u00FCck (1999). Since then, Cixous\u2019s work has turned in ever-tighter orbits around the relation to her mother\u2019s life as it tapers down toward death. The writer discovers a guide book for the task written in her mother\u2019s own hand, where the narrator comes to realise that she will have been midwife to her mother\u2019s death. In French, this substitutability or reversibility of birth and death is facilitated by the noun accouchement,\n\nMother Homer is Dead\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked servi;