Incinarration by Hélène Cixous
A genre-defying book about survival, transformation, and the human ability to rise from the ashes.Hélène Cixous’s powerful new book, masterfully translated by Peggy Kamuf, is a vivid journey through fire. From the ashes of wars, wildfires, and upheaval, Cixous traces a dramatic path across time—from the Second World War and the Nazi occupation of Oran to the European wildfires of 2022—weaving a rich, intimate narrative that merges history, autobiography, and myth. With her piercing, lyrical voice, Cixous confronts the human cost of destruction and upheaval, and asks a universal question: What do we carry with us when everything we know is falling to ashes?
In Incinarration, Cixous finds hope in the power of words, memory, and imagination to illuminate our darkest moments and redeem the future. As forests burn and regimes collapse, Cixous shows us how stories become a form of resistance—a way to remember, to bear testimony, and to find renewal in the face of oblivion.
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A Season in the Congo
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Letters around a Garden
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Farewell Tangier
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50 Drawings to Murder Magic
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On Modern Art
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Doing
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Correspondence
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Incidents
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Poetry and Photography
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Signs and Images. Writings on Art, Cinema and Photography
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"A Very Fine Gift" and Other Writings on Theory
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Critical Essays
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Nevermore
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Carnival and Cannibal, Or The Play of Global Antagonism
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"Simply a Particular Contemporary": Interviews, 1970–79
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On Merleau-Ponty
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Paper Collage
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On Revolution
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The Real and its Double
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The Paradisiacs
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Anthropology of the Name
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Tomb(e)
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The Sexual Night
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Eunice
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Stardust
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The 'Scandal' of Marxism and Other Writings on Politics
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To Sit on the Earth
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Old World
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On the Wrong Side
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And the War Is Over . . .
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Duels
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Mdeilmm
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The First Line
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Ecologica
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The Emperor
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Angst
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Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
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Stigmata
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Coming to Writing and Other Essays
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Hyperdream
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WellKept Ruins
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Veils
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The Selected Plays of Helene Cixous
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Eve Escapes
- Poetry in Painting
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Tomb(e)
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Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint
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Dream I Tell You
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Hemlock
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Insister of Jacques Derrida
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So Close
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Revoir
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Manhattan
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Politics, Ethics and Performance
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Philippines
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Abstracts and Brief Chronicles of the Time
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Osnabruck Station to Jerusalem
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Love Itself
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We Defy Augury
Hélène Cixous is professor emeritus of literature at the Université Paris VIII, where she founded and directed the Centre de recherches en études féminines. She is the author of more than seventy works of fiction, plays, and collections of critical essays, including Mdeilmm, Rêvoir, Well-Kept Ruins, We Defy Augury, and Tomb(e). Peggy Kamuf is professor emerita of French and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. Her most recent book is Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781803096285 |
| ISBN 10 | 1803096284 |
| Title | Incinarration |
| Author | Hélène Cixous |
| Series | The French List |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Seagull Books |
| Year published | 2026-06-05 |
| Number of pages | 152 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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