| Canadian lesbian feminists Erin Moure, Daphne Marlatt, and Betsy Warland use experimental language strategies to evoke new realities, disrupting and displacing dominant systems that marginalize them. Their poetry deploys a Canadian blend of American language-centered writing and French feminist ecriture feminine to both deconstruct and re-construct conventional gender, class, and sexuality assumptions. The Quebecoise and Canadian strategy of fiction/theory allows feminist literary creation to remain open and multiple, calling for the collaboration of women writers in an exploration and mapping of possibilities. This collaborative element of fiction/theory has become increasingly pluralized, resulting in a subversive strategy that extends the possibilities beyond the author+author approach. Collaboration now involves the intertextually invoked voices of many; the interweaving of language elements, genres, and social identity positions; and finally, the engagement of the reader as an active participant in the reader/writer/text continuum. |
