Cameron, Yael2024-08-132024-08-131/09/2023Cameron, 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/10.4324/9781003132332-25http://hdl.handle.net/10292/17877In 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.This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge/CRC Press in 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-colganChapter in BookOpenAccess10.4324/9781003132332-25