Critical Autoethnography and Écriture Feminine: Writing with Hélène Cixous

Author:   Elizabeth Mackinlay ,  Renée Mickelburgh
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2024
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9783031400506


Pages:   179
Publication Date:   13 October 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Critical Autoethnography and Écriture Feminine: Writing with Hélène Cixous


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The project offers a collection of new interdisciplinary critical autoethnographic engagements with Hélène Cixous écriture feminine and work Three steps on the ladder of writing. Critical autoethnography shares a reciprocal, and inter-animating relationship with Hélène Cixous’ écriture feminine (“feminine writing”), and in this collection authors explore that inter-animation by explicitly engaging with Three steps on the ladder of writing. Three steps is a poetic, insightful, and ultimately moving reflection on the writing process and explores three distinct areas essential for writing: The School of the Dead—the notion that something or someone must die in order for good writing to be born; The School of Dreams—the crucial role dreams play in literary inspiration and output; and The School of Roots—the importance of depth in the 'nether realms' in all aspects of writing. Topics covered include: ways Cixous’ work can address the need for loss and reparation in writing critical autoethnography, how Cixous’ writing “makes our body speak” through concepts of birth and the body in, through and of critical autoethnography, whether writing in this way recast and reform prevailing orders of domination and oppression, and how Cixous’ writing around the ethics of loving and giving translates into response-able and non-violent forms of critical autoethnography in relation to otherness and difference. In this collection, we invite you to “Let us go to the school of [critical autoethnographic] writing” (Cixous, 1993, p. 3) with the work of Hélène Cixous, and speak in a different way and through a different medium of academic language, in an approach that reveals the tensions, the paradoxes, the pains and the pleasures of writing with critical autoethnography in the contemporary university.

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Author:   Elizabeth Mackinlay ,  Renée Mickelburgh
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2024
Weight:   0.397kg
ISBN:  

9783031400506


ISBN 10:   303140050
Pages:   179
Publication Date:   13 October 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction: Digging, Unburying and Going to Writing School.- 2: Writing Myself Back Together.- 3: The School of the Dead and My Mother: A Story of Hunger.- 4: Finding a Language of My Own: Journeying to the School of the Dead with Cixous.- 5: The Narcissist Never Leaves, Only Dies: An Autoethno-graphic Account inspired by Cixous.- 6: Your Dreambody Must be Heard—Writing Trauma in the School of Dreams.- 7: The Fatal Blow: “Who are I­­­?” A Feminist Autoethnographer’s Encounter with Cixous.- 8: This Writing Chatters, Just Like a Dream: The Ragged Vitality of Teeth and Memory Loss.- 9: Learning Cixous’ Écriture Feminine Through the Flow of Words and Blood.- 10: Metis and Cixous—Cunning Resistance, Bodily Intelligence and Allies.- 11: Denying the Penis: Bringing Women to Writing [With/in and] Through Doc-toral Supervision.- 12: Writing Australian Gardens to Cross Borders Between the Online and Offline Worlds.- Inter-View.  

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Elizabeth Mackinlay is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Southern Cross University, Gold Coast (Australia). She has experience in Indigenous education, music ethnography and autoethnography, qualitative research and writing, and feminist issues. Renée Mickelburgh (PhD) is a feminist communications scholar whose research examines the way Australian women communicate gender justice and environmental issues through digital storytelling. With a background in journalism and communications, Renée has a keen interest in understanding the ways digital storytelling is both a communication tool for gender and environmental justice, and how it creates community, compassion, and connection.

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