From the publisher, Peter Lang Publishing
Prize-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 Montral, 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 arienne, Amantes, L'Amr, Le Dsert mauve, Picture Theory, and Baroque d'aube, are available in English translation.
Liminal Visions of Nicole Brossard FROM THE PUBLISHER
Prize-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 Montreal, 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 aerienne, Amantes, L'Amer, Le Desert mauve, Picture Theory, and Baroque d'aube, are available in English translation.
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Booknews
Examines the work of the contemporary Montreal-based lesbian writer, who has over thirty volumes of poetry, fiction-theory, postmodernist prose, and theory. Finds that she focuses on the liminal spaces around words and the enigma of lapses in the language. Some of the themes are a differential equation of lesbian love, holographic writing, and rituals of reading and writing. The quotations are offered in French and English translation. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.