L’espace transitoire dans la poésie de Sarah Marylou Brideau : Rues étrangères ou comment cartographier le soi et l’Autre
The Transitional Space in Sarah Marylou Brideau’s Poetry: Rues étrangères or the Cartography of Self and Otherness

Summary/Abstract: In the context of Franco‐Canadian literature, women writers are doubly marginalized by their status as women and by their belonging to a French‐speaking community. This status encloses them in a space of exiguity, which women try to free themselves with displacement writing. In Rues étrangères, Acadian poet Sarah Marylou Brideau describes a character‐poet who walks between two real spaces: Moncton and Fredericton. These two cities, in the Acadian popular imagination, refer to two distinct communities: francophones and anglophones. Thus, in these geographic displacements, one also observes an internal transition in the character, since she changes denomination. By appropriating the space of Other, this character‐poet reconstructs her surrounding space, which becomes "hers". This article aims to explore the role of geographical space, especially its displacements, in Rues étrangères. In this context of double minorization, it becomes necessary to define the role played by space in the construction of the feminine self.

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