Nelly Arcan, a postfeminist author? Cover Image

Nelly Arcan, une postféministe ?
Nelly Arcan, a postfeminist author?

Author(s): Ewelina Berek
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Nelly Arcan; women’s writing; femininity; contemporary Quebecer literature;postfeminism;

Summary/Abstract: The article proposes to reconsider the place taken by Nelly Arcan’s work in the women’s and feminist thinking in Quebec in the last years. The author discusses the concepts like the passivity of writer’s main characters, her conception of femininity and the fatalism which characterize her female characters. The aim of the article is to shed light in Nelly Arcan’s vision and renewal of the contemporary Quebecer literature. Her intimate, provocative, furious and dark novels bring out the deadlock on the women’s thinking nowadays and challenge the achievements of the claims of the feminist movements.

  • Issue Year: 18/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 30-45
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: French