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    The Aerial Letter
    The Aerial Letter
    The Aerial Letter
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    The Aerial Letter

    By Nicole Brossard

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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 writing, on feminism and on lesbian existence. This edition released for a new wave of feminist outrage is a book full of spirit, energy, insight and chutzpah. She is a major voice in contemporary literature with incisive and hard-hitting essays about feminist imagination and culture.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.—Nicole Brossard
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateApr 1, 2020
    ISBN9781925950113
    The Aerial Letter
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    Nicole Brossard

    Poète, romancière et essayiste, Nicole Brossard est née à Montréal en 1943. Depuis la parution de son premier recueil en 1965, elle a publié une trentaine de livres, dont Le centre blanc, La lettre aérienne, Le désert mauve, Hier, Cahier de roses et de civilisation. Deux fois récipiendaire du prix du Gouverneur général (1974, 1984) pour sa poésie, elle compte parmi les chefs de file d’une génération qui a renouvelé la poésie québécoise dans les années soixante-dix. Elle a cofondé en 1965 la revue littéraire La Barre du Jour et, en 1976, le journal féministe Les Têtes de Pioche. Elle a aussi coréalisé le film Some American Feminists (1976). En 1991, elle a publié, avec Lisette Girouard, une anthologie de la poésie des femmes au Québec (Des origines à nos jours) et, en 2002, Poèmes à dire la francophonie. En 1991, le prix Athanase-David, la plus haute distinction littéraire au Québec, lui était attribué. En 1999, elle a reçu pour une deuxième fois le Grand Prix du Festival international de la poésie de Trois-Rivières pour ses recueils Musée de l’os et de l’eau et Au présent des veines. En 2003, le prix W.O. Mitchell lui a été attribué. La même année, elle a reçu une bourse de carrière du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. En 2006, elle reçoit le Prix Molson du Conseil des Arts ainsi que le Grade de Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Pléiade nommée par l’Assemblée parlementaire de la francophonie. En 2010, elle reçoit le titre d’Officier de l’Ordre du Canada. Elle est membre d’honneur de l’UNEQ. Ses textes sont parus dans plusieurs anthologies et ses livres sont traduits en plusieurs langues et lui valent aujourd’hui une réputation internationale.

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