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- Hélène Cixous’s “stroboscopic” writing: a Deleuzian reading of the feminine text
- Chadova E.V. Hélène Cixous’s “stroboscopic” writing: a Deleuzian reading of the feminine text. Vestnik of Kostroma State University, 2025, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 117–125. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2025-31-2-117-125
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2025-31-2-117-125
- УДК: 821(44).09”20”
- EDN: QLKFSR
- Publish date: 2025-03-05
- Annotation: The article attempts to analyse the basic concepts of Hélène Cixous through the prism of the conceptual ideas of Gilles Louis René Deleuze, who devoted one of his articles to the her works in “Le Mondeˮ magazine. The conceptual outline of the philosophical works of Gilles Deleuze and Pierre-Félix Guattari related to the understanding of the textuality of Hélène Cixous (in particular, “Capitalism and Schizophrenia, “Hélène Cixous or Stroboscopic Writingˮ) is applied to her own idea of women’s writing (using the example of the texts “The Laugh of the Medusaˮ, “Coming to Writingˮ, etc.). The main part of the article compares Deleuze’s concepts, which are briefly applied to literary texts by Сixous in his article, and are more fully revealed in his philosophical works. The concept of “stroboscopic writingˮ becomes a significant term, which he uses in relation to the writer’s texts and notes that they have a special “speedˮ and “intensityˮ. The article concludes that the terms “feminine writingˮ and “stroboscopic writingˮ may be synonymous to some extent, as they share a number of characteristics peculiar to both. Deleuze’s ideas about nonlinearity and multiplicity make him an intellectual ally of Cixous, as her “stroboscopicˮ way of constructing a narrative negates the usual rules of rhythm and organisation. If traditional writing has a causal and sequential order, then Сixous replaces it with an internal movement of intensities, bursts of meaning that arise in different layers. As a result, it is concluded that Cixous’s “stroboscopic writingˮ can be compared with the idea of a “rhizome bookˮ, which offers us a non-linear unfolding and strengthening of connections instead of strictly dividing into a centre and a periphery.
- Keywords: women’s writing, poststructuralism, stroboscopic writing, intensity, French literature.
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