Liminal Visions of Nicole BrossardPrize-winning author Nicole Brossard has more than thirty volumes of poetry, «fiction-theory, » postmodernist prose, and theory to her credit. Her experimental «writing in the feminine» is infused with a political energy that derives from her location as a lesbian-feminist. Associated with modernity in the literary renaissance of her native Montréal, she explores figures for the next millennium. Her embodied, desiring writing focuses on the liminal spaces around words, and the enigma of lapses in the language. Brossard's major works, La Lettre aérienne, Amantes, l'Amèr, Le Désert mauve, Picture Theory, and Baroque d'aube, are available in English translation. |
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In the Beginning Is Desire | 17 |
A Differential Equation of Lesbian Love | 41 |
The Generic Woman | 75 |
Copyright | |
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Adrienne Rich aerial Amantes Barbara Godard Baroque Baroque d'aube Barthes Brossard calls Brossard's texts Brossardian chapter Clarice Lispector codes complex continues corps creative culture Cybil d'une deconstructing Dérive desert Désert mauve désir desire dimension discourse displace Djuna Barnes double écriture emotion energy enigma erotic explore female feminine Feminism feminist feminist consciousness femme fiction figure French gender hologram horizon images imaginary imagination inscribe invent jouissance Judith Butler L'Amèr l'écriture language langue lesbian Lettre aérienne Louise Dupré lover Lovhers male meaning Mélanie memory Michèle Monique Wittig Montréal mother mots narrative narrator Nicole Brossard Nightwood novel ontological patriarchal phallocentric Picture theory poet poetry political polysemic postmodern postmodernist produce psychoanalysis Québec radical reader reading réalité reality rituals Roland Barthes semantic sense sexuality signifying signs silence skin social space spiral surface symbolic term textual thought tongue transformative translation utopian violence vision voice woman women words writing