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Article Excerpt
Montreal: McGill-Queens UP, 2002. 348 pages.
In this transatlantic study, Milena Santoro argues that a feminist avant-garde existed in the mid-to-late 1970s among French women writers who attempted, as an aesthetic and political project, to rewrite maternal archetypes. Santoro historicizes the work of four feminist authors of experimental fiction: Helene Cixous and Jeanne Hyvrard from France, and Nicole Brossard and Madeleine Gagnon from Quebec. Underlining the importance of collectivity to the concept of "avant-garde," Santoro herself constructs a textual community among these authors by revealing their shared concerns with female subjectivity and creativity and by explicating their concurrent experimentation with genre, syntax and semantics. To redress what she perceives as an imbalance in previous criticism, Santoro selects not theoretical but fictional texts for her study: Cixous's La, Gagnon's Lueur, Brossard's L'Amer and Hyvrard's trilogy Les Prunes de...
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