Panties and roadswoman, fiction and cartography in Aritha Van Herk's "No fixed address"

  1. Darias Beautell, Eva
Journal:
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses

ISSN: 0211-5913

Year of publication: 1994

Issue Title: Narrativa postcolonial/postmodernista en lengua inglesa

Issue: 28

Pages: 151-160

Type: Article

More publications in: Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses

Abstract

In this paper, I analyse the novel No Fixed Address by the Canadian writer Aritha van Herk from the particular perspectives opened by postcolonial and feminist literary theories. I will focus on the intersections between these two theoretical discourses in fiction. My attempt is to show how van Herk dismantles social and literary conventions in an alternative narrative that rewrites the relations among woman, fiction and space.