Travel Experiences

Abstract

During the eighties the writer Hélène Cixous published a series of essays in answer to a general climate of violence toward the Other, but also addressing discourse about sexual difference which she considered confused. One of the theses which Cixous maintains in this work is that all of the Western Thought, throughout History, has been based on hierarchical and exclusive oppositions (such as History/Nature, Art/ Nature, Action/Passion), and all these binomial categories ultimate become one: Man/Woman. Consequently Cixous stress the necessity —which continues nowadays— to consider other kind of experiences which are no longer excluding of the Other, which might be feminine or passive, but also foreign, historic, contingent, mythical or imaginary. Like Cixous, we call these types of experience travel experiences.