Ecriture femenin and rhizomatic thought:
Five years after Cixous wrote The Laugh of Medusa, Deleuze and Guattari published “A Thousand Plateaus”. The former explores notions of rhizomatic thought through woman’s writing—a way to make write the feminine body and a way to (de)construct one’s own place in the world by flying over predetermined structures through poetic syntax. The latter offers additional language for the purposed deconstruction of such a task. One must take root. One must know the Other. The Other, as appears in Cixous’s essay, has an entrail with an axis that can be traced to Glissant’s poetics of relation, perhaps by virtue of his explicit rhizomatic thought, but also through his Poetics of Relation, where relation with the Other can be directive to the self. 

“To admit that writing is precisely working (in) the in-between, inspecting the process of the same and of the other without which nothing can live, undoing the work of death-to admit this is first to want the two, as well as both, the ensemble of the one and the other, not fixed in sequences of struggle and expulsion or some other form of death but infinitely dynamized by an incessant process of exchange from one subject to another.” (Cixous, 1976)