The Aerial Letter - Couverture souple

Brossard, Nicole

 
9781925950106: The Aerial Letter

Synopsis

What characterizes women as a group is our colonized status. To be colonized is not to think for oneself, to think on behalf of "the other", to put one's emotions to work in service of "the other". In short, not to exist.


Nicole Brossard is known internationally for her writings on feminism, on lesbian existence and on writing. This edition released for a new wave of feminist outrage is a book full of spirit, energy, insight and cheek. She is a major voice in contemporary literature with incisive and inspiring essays about feminist imagination and culture. Nicole Brossard writes, "I believe there's only one explanation for all of these texts: my desire and my will to understand patriarchal reality and how it works, not for its own sake but for its tragic consequences in the lives of women, in the life of the spirit. Years of anger, revolt, certitude and conviction are in The Aerial Letter, years of fighting against the screen which stands in the way of women's energy, identity and creativity."

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What characterizes women as a group is our colonized status. To be colonized is not to think for oneself, to think on behalf of "the other", to put one's emotions to work in service of "the other". In short, not to exist.


Nicole Brossard is known internationally for her writings on feminism, on lesbian existence and on writing. This edition released for a new wave of feminist outrage is a book full of spirit, energy, insight and cheek. She is a major voice in contemporary literature with incisive and inspiring essays about feminist imagination and culture. Nicole Brossard writes, "I believe there's only one explanation for all of these texts: my desire and my will to understand patriarchal reality and how it works, not for its own sake but for its tragic consequences in the lives of women, in the life of the spirit. Years of anger, revolt, certitude and conviction are in The Aerial Letter, years of fighting against the screen which stands in the way of women's energy, identity and creativity."

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What characterizes women as a group is our colonized status. To be colonized is not to think for oneself, to think on behalf of "the other", to put one's emotions to work in service of "the other". In short, not to exist.


Nicole Brossard is known internationally for her writings on feminism, on lesbian existence and on writing. This edition released for a new wave of feminist outrage is a book full of spirit, energy, insight and cheek. She is a major voice in contemporary literature with incisive and inspiring essays about feminist imagination and culture. Nicole Brossard writes, "I believe there's only one explanation for all of these texts: my desire and my will to understand patriarchal reality and how it works, not for its own sake but for its tragic consequences in the lives of women, in the life of the spirit. Years of anger, revolt, certitude and conviction are in The Aerial Letter, years of fighting against the screen which stands in the way of women's energy, identity and creativity."

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What characterizes women as a group is our colonized status. To be colonized is not to think for oneself, to think on behalf of "the other", to put one's emotions to work in service of "the other". In short, not to exist.


Nicole Brossard is known internationally for her writings on feminism, on lesbian existence and on writing. This edition released for a new wave of feminist outrage is a book full of spirit, energy, insight and cheek. She is a major voice in contemporary literature with incisive and inspiring essays about feminist imagination and culture. Nicole Brossard writes, "I believe there's only one explanation for all of these texts: my desire and my will to understand patriarchal reality and how it works, not for its own sake but for its tragic consequences in the lives of women, in the life of the spirit. Years of anger, revolt, certitude and conviction are in The Aerial Letter, years of fighting against the screen which stands in the way of women's energy, identity and creativity."

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What characterizes women as a group is our colonized status. To be colonized is not to think for oneself, to think on behalf of "the other", to put one's emotions to work in service of "the other". In short, not to exist.


Nicole Brossard is known internationally for her writings on feminism, on lesbian existence and on writing. This edition released for a new wave of feminist outrage is a book full of spirit, energy, insight and cheek. She is a major voice in contemporary literature with incisive and inspiring essays about feminist imagination and culture. Nicole Brossard writes, "I believe there's only one explanation for all of these texts: my desire and my will to understand patriarchal reality and how it works, not for its own sake but for its tragic consequences in the lives of women, in the life of the spirit. Years of anger, revolt, certitude and conviction are in The Aerial Letter, years of fighting against the screen which stands in the way of women's energy, identity and creativity."

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What characterizes women as a group is our colonized status. To be colonized is not to think for oneself, to think on behalf of "the other", to put one's emotions to work in service of "the other". In short, not to exist.


Nicole Brossard is known internationally for her writings on feminism, on lesbian existence and on writing. This edition released for a new wave of feminist outrage is a book full of spirit, energy, insight and cheek. She is a major voice in contemporary literature with incisive and inspiring essays about feminist imagination and culture. Nicole Brossard writes, "I believe there's only one explanation for all of these texts: my desire and my will to understand patriarchal reality and how it works, not for its own sake but for its tragic consequences in the lives of women, in the life of the spirit. Years of anger, revolt, certitude and conviction are in The Aerial Letter, years of fighting against the screen which stands in the way of women's energy, identity and creativity."

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À propos de l'auteur

Born in Montréal in 1943. Poet, novelist, essayist, and twice Governor General's Literary Award winner for her poetry. Nicole Brossard has published more than forty books since 1965. She has cofounded and codirected the avant-garde literary magazine La Barre du Jour (1965-1975), has codirected the film Some American Feminists (1976) and coedited the acclaimed Anthologie de la poésie des femmes au Québec (1991, 2003). In 2019, she received The Griffin Prize for a Life Achievement. Her most recent book in English is Avant Desire: a Nicole Brossard reader published by Coach House Book (Toronto) in 2020.

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ISBN 10 :  0889611238 ISBN 13 :  9780889611238
Editeur : Women's Press of Canada, 1989
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