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Mother Homer is Dead (The Frontiers of Theory)
Hlne Cixous chronicles the last six months of her mothers life, transgressing the mother-daughter relation in the experience of dying Mother Homer is Dead was written in the immediate aftermath of the death of the writers mother in the 103rd year of her life. ve Cixous, ne Klein, has figured centrally in her daughters writing since the publication of Osnabrck (1999). Since then, Cixouss work has turned in ever-tighter orbits around the relation to her mothers life as it tapers down toward death. The writer discovers a guide book for the task written in her mothers own hand, where the narrator comes to realise that she will have been midwife to her mothers death. In French, this substitutability or reversibility of birth and death is facilitated by the noun Read more