Brigit Kaiser: 'Multi-lingual formations – Cixous and the writing of “I-with-the-others”'

Brigit Kaiser: 'Multi-lingual formations – Cixous and the writing of “I-with-the-others”'

My current project pursues the question how contemporary literary texts imagine and phrase subjecthood on such (linguistically, historically, socially) multi-layered terrain, otherwise than monolingual (in the sense of unified and homogenous) or hybrid (in the sense of ‘split between’ or the ‘merging of two’). Particular focus lies here on the work of feminist writer Hélène Cixous. The narrative voices in her poetic fictions stage subject-formation in an intra-cultural mode marked by cultural, temporal/historical and linguistic thickness.