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Morgan, CM ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1104-2842 (2019) Avenue (rue) Coloniale. Geohumanities.

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Abstract

This prose-poem is part of a larger critical-creative project on Montreal, which mixes memoir, feminist theory and literature. A key intertext is Nicole Brossard's French Kiss (1974), a celebration of language and desire. In Brossard’s counter-cultural novel, Marielle, also known as Elle, drives across Montreal from a French-speaking east side to an English-speaking west side and back again. As she does so, a francophone and anglophone woman engage in a lengthy kiss which is projected across urban space to a place and time outside or beyond patriarchy. Other moments see the women hang out with Marielle and two male friends, exploring and enjoying the pleasures of the city. My prose-poem is a tribute to Brossard’s novel, Montreal, and the feminist writer, Martine Delvaux, who lives in, and has written about, a neighbourhood featured in French Kiss.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	The final published version of this accepted manuscript is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2019.1649091
Uncontrolled Keywords:	poetry
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PE English
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Humanities
Depositing User:	Symplectic
Date Deposited:	26 Jul 2019 09:44
Last Modified:	03 Mar 2021 01:30
URI:	https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/6587

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