Eve Meets Medusa
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In this chapter, Yael Cameron creatively merges the myths of Eve and Medusa via the practice of Hélène Cixous’s feminist theory of writing: écriture féminine. Through an exercise of the poetic, Eve and Medusa are invoked in full embrace of their joy and suffering. The writing performs a series of escapes from the economy of the patriarchal text, giving rise to alternative possibilities that lie dormant in the margins of the two myths: a shadow-reading. Drawing on Cixousian imagery of the orange, the gaze, the night, seas and serpents, and flight, this chapter makes a case for the mythical woman’s unceasing and jubilant arrival into the world.Description
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Cameron, Y. (2023). Eve Meets Medusa. In C. Blyth & E. Colgan (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Eve (1st ed., pp. 11-25). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003132332-25
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The Routledge Companion to Eve on 25 September 2023, available online: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003132332/routledge-companion-eve-caroline-blyth-emily-colgan