Subversive Texts: Quebec Women Writers
Abstract
Women writers of Quebec (Gabrielle Roy, Anne Hébert, Marie-Claire Blais, Denise Boucher, Louky Bersianik, Jovette Marchessault, and Nicole Brossard) are a collective force which demystifies, de-constructs, and shatters patriarchal values, and which offers feminist alternatives for the recreation of our world. Having created the poetic novel, as well as the novel of parody, literary genres for which Quebec is by now well-known, they express in these works their concern with oppression, as well as with difference, woman being the Other, different from man, speaking in a voice different from patriarchal discourse. Their subversive texts are stepping-stones on the path to new forms of being and of writing, to a future which, if they and women in general are heard, may well be less destructive.Published
1988-06-06
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Andersen, M. (1988). Subversive Texts: Quebec Women Writers. Studies in Canadian Literature, 13(2). Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/8081
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