Reimagining the American Road Trip in Nicole Brossard’s Le désert mauve

Ania Wroblewski

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Vol. 47 No. 2 (2022): Special Section: Black Lives Matter

Reimagining the American Road Trip in Nicole Brossard’s Le désert mauve

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Submitted: November 8, 2023
Published: 2023-11-16

References

Allamand, Carole. “La voix du paradis: La québécitude de Jack Kerouac.” Études françaises, vol. 40, no. 1, 2004, pp. 131-48.
Anctil, Pierre. Préface. Un Homme Grand: Jack Kerouac at the Crossroads of Many Cultures, edited by Pierre Anctil et al., Carleton UP, 1990, pp. xx-xxi.
Beaulieu, Victor-Lévy. Jack Kérouac: Essai-poulet. 1972. Les Éditions Typo, 2004.
Brigham, Ann. American Road Narratives: Reimagining Mobility in Literature and Film. U of Virginia P, 2015.
Brossard, Nicole. Le désert mauve. Les Éditions Typo, 2010.
Carden, Mary Paniccia. “‘Adventures in Auto-Eroticism’: Economies of Traveling Masculinity in On the Road and The First Third.”Holladay and Holton, pp. 77-98.
Carrière, Marie. Writing in the Feminine in French and English Canada: A Question of Ethics. U of Toronto P, 2002.
Chassay, Jean-François. L’ambiguïté américaine: Le roman québécois face aux États-Unis. X Y Z , 1995.
Cloutier, Jean-Christophe. La vie est d’ hommage. Les Éditions du Boréal, 2016.
Conley, Katherine. “The Spiral as Möbius Strip: Inside/Outside Le désert mauve.” Québec Studies, vol. 19, 1995, pp. 143-53.
Dally, Charline, and Gabrielle Harnois-Blouin. “le désert mauve.” charline dally, char-linedally.com/le-desert-mauve; gabrielle harnois-blouin, www.gabriellehb.com/desert-mauve.
Delvaux, Martine. Thelma, Louise & moi. Héliotrope, 2018.
Erlichman, Howard J. Camino del Norte: How a Series of Watering Holes, Fords, and Dirt Trails Evolved into Interstate-35 in Texas. Texas A&M UP, 2006.
Ferrer, Carolina. “Traduction, fission et trahison: ‘L’hologramme’ de J. Robert Oppenheimer dans ‘Le Désert mauve’ de Nicole Brossard.” Des fins et des temps: Les limites de l’ imaginaire, edited by Jean-François Chassay, Anne Élaine Cliché, and Bertrand Gervais, Centre de Recherche sur le texte et l’imaginaire, 2005, pp. 115-43. Observatoire de l’imaginaire contemporain, oic.uqam.ca/en/articles/traduction-fission-et-trahison-lhologramme-de-j-robert-oppenheimer-dans-le-desert-mauve-de.
Godbout, Patricia. “Le traducteur fictif dans la littérature québécoise: Notes et réf lexions.” Cahiers franco-canadiens de l’Ouest, vol. 22, no. 2, 2010, pp. 163-75.
Gould, Karen. “Rewriting ‘America’: Violence, Postmodernity, and Parody in the Fiction of Madeleine Monette, Nicole Brossard, and Monique Larue.” Postcolonial Subjects Francophone Women Writers, edited by Mary Jean Green et al., U of Minnesota P, 1996, pp. 186-209.
Hernandez, Julie Gerk. “Fertile Theoretical Ground: An Ecocritical Reading of Nicole Brossard’s Mauve Desert.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 49, no. 3, 2008, p. 255-72.
Holladay, Hilary. Preface. Holladay and Holton, pp. ix-xiii.
Holladay, Hilary, and Robert Holton, editors. What’s Your Road, Man? Critical Essays on Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. Southern Illinois UP, 2009.
Jackson, M.E. “French Friends, American Allies: Ethnic Dynamics in the Writings of Jack Kerouac.” Comparative American Studies: An International Journal, vol. 11, no. 3, 2013, pp. 280-89.
Jenik, Adriene. Mauve Desert: A CD-ROM Translation. Shifting Horizons Productions [Los Angeles], 1997.
Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. 1957. Penguin Books, 1976.
Larson, Lars Erik. “Free Ways and Straight Roads: The Interstates of Sal Paradise and 1950s America.”Holladay and Holton, pp. 35-59.
Leland, John. Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road. Viking, 2007.
McFarlane, Heather. Divided Highways: Road Narrative and Nationhood in Canada. U of Ottawa P, 2019.
McWilliams Barndt, Susan. The American Road Trip and American Political Thought. Lexington Books, 2018.
Parker, Alice. “The Mauve Horizon of Nicole Brossard.”Québec Studies, vol. 10, 1990, pp. 107-19.
Pinette, Susan. “Jack Kerouac’s French, American, and Quebecois Receptions: From Deterritorialization to Reterritorialization.” L’Esprit Créateur, vol. 58, no. 4, 2018, pp. 120-33.
Quintal, Claire. “Mémère Kerouac ou la revanche du berceau en Franco-Américanie.” Voix et images, vol. 13, no. 3, 1988, pp. 397-401.
Randall, Marilyn. “Writing Home: A Territorial History of French Canadian Literature.” Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, vol. 41, no. 1, 2008, pp. 20-30.
Rodriguez, Adriana Jimenez. “Horizons of Transgression in a Lesbian Novel: Nicole Brossard’s Mauve Desert.” Revista de lenguas modernas, vol. 16, 2012, pp. 49-64.
Rose, Mark H., and Raymond A. Mohl. Interstate: Highway Politics and Policy since 1939. U of Tennessee P, 2012.
Ross, Kristin. Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture. MIT P, 1996.
Skinazi, Karen E.H. “Expanding Jack Kerouac’s ‘America’: Canadian Revisions of On the Road.” American Studies, vol. 51, no. 3, 2010, pp. 31-59.
Smith, Sidonie. Moving Lives: Twentieth-Century Women’s Travel Writing. U of Minnesota P, 2001.
Steele, Larry. “Fascination et déception: L’Amérique dans Le désert mauve de Nicole Brossard et Une histoire américaine de Jacques Godbout.” Dalhousie French Studies, vol. 64, 2003, pp. 69-74.

How to Cite

Wroblewski, A. (2023). Reimagining the American Road Trip in Nicole Brossard’s Le désert mauve. Studies in Canadian Literature, 47(2), 217–236. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/33689

Copyright Notice

[1] Allamand, Carole. “La voix du paradis: La québécitude de Jack Kerouac.” Études françaises, vol. 40, no. 1, 2004, pp. 131-48.

[2] Anctil, Pierre. Préface. Un Homme Grand: Jack Kerouac at the Crossroads of Many Cultures, edited by Pierre Anctil et al., Carleton UP, 1990, pp. xx-xxi.

[3] Beaulieu, Victor-Lévy. Jack Kérouac: Essai-poulet. 1972. Les Éditions Typo, 2004.

[4] Brigham, Ann. American Road Narratives: Reimagining Mobility in Literature and Film. U of Virginia P, 2015.

[5] Brossard, Nicole. Le désert mauve. Les Éditions Typo, 2010.

[6] Carden, Mary Paniccia. “‘Adventures in Auto-Eroticism’: Economies of Traveling Masculinity in On the Road and The First Third.”Holladay and Holton, pp. 77-98.

[7] Carrière, Marie. Writing in the Feminine in French and English Canada: A Question of Ethics. U of Toronto P, 2002.

[8] Chassay, Jean-François. L’ambiguïté américaine: Le roman québécois face aux États-Unis. X Y Z , 1995.

[9] Cloutier, Jean-Christophe. La vie est d’ hommage. Les Éditions du Boréal, 2016.

[10] Conley, Katherine. “The Spiral as Möbius Strip: Inside/Outside Le désert mauve.” Québec Studies, vol. 19, 1995, pp. 143-53.

[11] Dally, Charline, and Gabrielle Harnois-Blouin. “le désert mauve.” charline dally, char-linedally.com/le-desert-mauve; gabrielle harnois-blouin, www.gabriellehb.com/desert-mauve.

[12] Delvaux, Martine. Thelma, Louise & moi. Héliotrope, 2018.

[13] Erlichman, Howard J. Camino del Norte: How a Series of Watering Holes, Fords, and Dirt Trails Evolved into Interstate-35 in Texas. Texas A&M UP, 2006.

[14] Ferrer, Carolina. “Traduction, fission et trahison: ‘L’hologramme’ de J. Robert Oppenheimer dans ‘Le Désert mauve’ de Nicole Brossard.” Des fins et des temps: Les limites de l’ imaginaire, edited by Jean-François Chassay, Anne Élaine Cliché, and Bertrand Gervais, Centre de Recherche sur le texte et l’imaginaire, 2005, pp. 115-43. Observatoire de l’imaginaire contemporain, oic.uqam.ca/en/articles/traduction-fission-et-trahison-lhologramme-de-j-robert-oppenheimer-dans-le-desert-mauve-de.

[15] Godbout, Patricia. “Le traducteur fictif dans la littérature québécoise: Notes et réf lexions.” Cahiers franco-canadiens de l’Ouest, vol. 22, no. 2, 2010, pp. 163-75.

[16] Gould, Karen. “Rewriting ‘America’: Violence, Postmodernity, and Parody in the Fiction of Madeleine Monette, Nicole Brossard, and Monique Larue.” Postcolonial Subjects Francophone Women Writers, edited by Mary Jean Green et al., U of Minnesota P, 1996, pp. 186-209.

[17] Hernandez, Julie Gerk. “Fertile Theoretical Ground: An Ecocritical Reading of Nicole Brossard’s Mauve Desert.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 49, no. 3, 2008, p. 255-72.

[18] Holladay, Hilary. Preface. Holladay and Holton, pp. ix-xiii.

[19] Holladay, Hilary, and Robert Holton, editors. What’s Your Road, Man? Critical Essays on Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. Southern Illinois UP, 2009.

[20] Jackson, M.E. “French Friends, American Allies: Ethnic Dynamics in the Writings of Jack Kerouac.” Comparative American Studies: An International Journal, vol. 11, no. 3, 2013, pp. 280-89.

[21] Jenik, Adriene. Mauve Desert: A CD-ROM Translation. Shifting Horizons Productions [Los Angeles], 1997.

[22] Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. 1957. Penguin Books, 1976.

[23] Larson, Lars Erik. “Free Ways and Straight Roads: The Interstates of Sal Paradise and 1950s America.”Holladay and Holton, pp. 35-59.

[24] Leland, John. Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road. Viking, 2007.

[25] McFarlane, Heather. Divided Highways: Road Narrative and Nationhood in Canada. U of Ottawa P, 2019.

[26] McWilliams Barndt, Susan. The American Road Trip and American Political Thought. Lexington Books, 2018.

[27] Parker, Alice. “The Mauve Horizon of Nicole Brossard.”Québec Studies, vol. 10, 1990, pp. 107-19.

[28] Pinette, Susan. “Jack Kerouac’s French, American, and Quebecois Receptions: From Deterritorialization to Reterritorialization.” L’Esprit Créateur, vol. 58, no. 4, 2018, pp. 120-33.

[29] Quintal, Claire. “Mémère Kerouac ou la revanche du berceau en Franco-Américanie.” Voix et images, vol. 13, no. 3, 1988, pp. 397-401.

[30] Randall, Marilyn. “Writing Home: A Territorial History of French Canadian Literature.” Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, vol. 41, no. 1, 2008, pp. 20-30.

[31] Rodriguez, Adriana Jimenez. “Horizons of Transgression in a Lesbian Novel: Nicole Brossard’s Mauve Desert.” Revista de lenguas modernas, vol. 16, 2012, pp. 49-64.

[32] Rose, Mark H., and Raymond A. Mohl. Interstate: Highway Politics and Policy since 1939. U of Tennessee P, 2012.

[33] Ross, Kristin. Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture. MIT P, 1996.

[34] Skinazi, Karen E.H. “Expanding Jack Kerouac’s ‘America’: Canadian Revisions of On the Road.” American Studies, vol. 51, no. 3, 2010, pp. 31-59.

[35] Smith, Sidonie. Moving Lives: Twentieth-Century Women’s Travel Writing. U of Minnesota P, 2001.

[36] Steele, Larry. “Fascination et déception: L’Amérique dans Le désert mauve de Nicole Brossard et Une histoire américaine de Jacques Godbout.” Dalhousie French Studies, vol. 64, 2003, pp. 69-74.