In this two-part episode of the EUTERPE Podcast, doctoral candidate Uthara Geetha (University of Oviedo) speaks with Professor. Birgit Kaiser (Utrecht University) about her second monograph ‘Hélène Cixous's Poetics of Voice: Echo - Subjectivity – Diffraction. Prof. Kaiser reveals how Hélène Cixous’s poetic fictions perform a radical, anti-essentialist model of subjectivity as “voice”– one that emerges not from a closed individual but from a ceaseless echo of other beings, places, and times. Kaiser introduces the concept of “echology” (ecology with a silent *h*) to reframe Cixous’s much-debated “feminine writing” as a material, relational, and deeply situated mode of becoming that includes the dead, the non-human, and the absent. Through a diffractive reading that thinks with Cixous rather than merely about her, this podcast shows how her work offers a timely, decolonial, and eco-logical path for reimagining selfhood, solidarity, and critique in the twenty-first century.

The episode transcript can be accessed here.

This episode is part of the EUTERPE podcast Library on European Literatures and Genders from a Transnational Perspective.

The podcast is powered by the European Union, UKRI, and the Central European University Library.

Grant Agreement: 101073012 EUTERPE HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01 Project.

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This episode was produced and edited by: Uthara Geetha.

Thank you to Alexander Walker for the music and to Alice Flinta for the voice over.

Thank you also to Ninutsa Nadirashvili, Evangeline Scarpulla, and Kris Orszaghova for designing the podcast covers.