The Aerial Letter
“What characterizes women as a group is our colonized status. To be colonized is not to think for oneself...in short, not to exist.“
Winner, 2019, The Griffin Prize for Lifetime Achievement
Nicole Brossard is known internationally for her writings on feminism, on lesbian existence and on writing. This edition released for a new wave of feminist outrage is a book full of spirit, energy, insight and cheek. She is a major voice in contemporary literature with incisive and inspiring essays about feminist imagination and culture.
Nicole Brossard writes, "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."
2020 | ISBN 9781925950106 | Paperback | 152 x 229 mm | 144 pages
Endorsements
"Nicole Brossard's The Aerial Letter is no ordinary book; it is a true masterpiece ... Brossard at her best!"
—Luc Quintal
Nicole Brossard demands for women the space to dream, and the dream is to bring the self into being.
—Carol Lefevre, author of Murmurations
... as if dreamed up in the fabulous interstices of Luce Irigaray and Monique Wittig.
—Marion May Campbell