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

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

ISSN: 0211-5913

Année de publication: 1994

Titre de la publication: Narrativa postcolonial/postmodernista en lengua inglesa

Número: 28

Pages: 151-160

Type: Article

D'autres publications dans: Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses

Résumé

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.