Manna: For the Mandelstams for the Mandelas

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U of Minnesota Press, 1994 - 294 pàgines
In this act of willful writing, by turns lyrical and intense, Helene Cixous brings Osip Mandelstam and Nelson Mandela together through the common first syllables of their names, the dates of their respective exiles, and the women, Nadezhda Mandelstam and Winnie-Zami Mandela, who disclose and restore their partners' lives through language. For Cixous, politics is approached most openly and freely through poetry; social change cannot exist without linguistic change. Her poetic language moderates the historical, political, and personal tales of Mandelstam and Mandela to produce a new sense of individual tragedy and cultural possibility. This intriguing and beautiful book is an act of emancipation as it releases its subjects - along with its readers - from the restricted language of constraint and exile. Long distinguished among creative writers in France and as an intellectual in the United States, Helene Cixous is the author of more than thirty volumes, many of which are now available in English-language translation. She has been highly praised in France and elsewhere by such renowned intellectuals as Jacques Derrida.
 

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Dedication to the Ostrich
1
Face of Abandon
23
The True Portrait of Nelson
71
Akhmatovas Egg
101
The End of the Unfinished Poem
117
Osips Last Letter
145
All the Things They Couldnt Do
171
The Without Farewell of the First of May
187
A Life of Letters
227
The Posthumous Poem
243
Notes to the Introduction
255
Translators Notes to Manna
273
Suggested Further Reading
293
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