Risking Who One Is: : Encounters with Contemporary Art and Literature

Susan Suleiman sets forth in this insightful work an intimate and provocative exchange with contemporary writers and artists such as Simone de Beauvoir, Hé lè ne Cixous, Elie Wiesel, Mary Gordon, Max Ernst and Angela Carter. Suleiman includes us in her voyages of self-discovery as she confronts the conflicts between the problematic and crucial relations between individual life-story and collective history.