Narrative in the Feminine: Daphne Marlatt and Nicole Brossard

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This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgements Earlier drafts of sections of this book have appeared in the following articles: ‘‘Protean Travelogue in Nicole Brossard’s Picture Theory: Feminist Desire and Narrative Form,’’ Modern Language Studies 27.3, 4 (Winter 1997), 197-211; ‘‘Reading Nicole Brossard,’’ Ellipse 53 (1995), 9-19; ‘‘ ‘Imagine Her Surprise’: The Debate over Feminist Essentialism,’’ Collaboration in the Feminine: Writings on Women and Culture from Tessera, edited by Barbara Godard (Toronto: Second Story Press, 1994), 228-36; ‘‘Nicole Brossard’s Elegant International Play,’’ Canada: Theoretical Discourse/Discours théoriques, edited by Terry Goldie, Carmen Lambert and Rowland Lorimer (Montréal: Association for Canadian Studies/Association d’études canadiennes, 1994), 187-202; ‘‘Writing Meta-narrative in the Feminine,’’ Signature: A Journal of Theory and Canadian Literature 3 (Summer 1990), 28-43; ‘‘Challenging the Masculine Generic,’’ Tessera 4/Contemporary Verse 2 11, 2-3 (Spring/Summer 1988), 76-88. Related material was presented at ‘‘Message in a Bottle: The Literature of Small Islands,’’ Charlottetown, P .E.I., June 24-28, 1998; ‘‘Transformations,’’ Lancaster University, U.K., July 19, 1997; N.E.M.L.A., Montréal, April 19-20, 1996; A.C.C.U.T.E., Charlottetown, P .E.I., May 1992; and ‘‘Theoretical Discourse in the Canadian Intellectual Community,’’ Gray Rocks, Québec, September 24-27, 1992. vii ...