Essai

Méduse et compagnie

Pascale Millot

Fifty years after it was first published, Hélène Cixous’s Le rire de la Méduse has lost nothing of its power of accompaniment. The notion of “écriture féminine” it heralded may not be as fresh as it used to be, but this classic work continuously acts as a joyful encouragement to all those who question their legitimacy within female authorship. Considering the text within the landscape in which it was published, this short essay draws an itinerary that goes from Virginia Woolf to the current practitioners of autotheory, including...