Le corps comme zone de contact : l’érotique et la souveraineté dans l’œuvre de Natasha Kanapé Fontaine

Malou Brouwer

doi:10.18352/relief.974

The body as a zone of contact: eroticism and sovereignty in the work of Natasha Kanapé Fontaine

Author(s)

Malou Brouwer Université Radboud

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18352/relief.974

Keywords:

souveraineté, littératures autochtones canadiennes, féminisme, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, poésie

Abstract

This article aims to study how the Indigenous female body contributes to re-imagining sovereignty. Within the framework of Indigenous feminism, we analyze the body as a contact zone in the poetic work of Natasha Kanapé Fontaine. We identify three strategies of the body – denouncing sexual violence and bypassing official History, re-affirming Indigenous identities, and creating new relations – in order to underline the negotiating role played by the body in contesting a certain kind of dominant thinking in Canada.

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Author Biography

Malou Brouwer, Université Radboud

Malou Brouwer a terminé sa maîtrise de recherche en études littéraires (Université Radboud) en août 2017. Son mémoire traite de l'érotisme et de la souveraineté dans la poésie autochtone canadienne francophone et anglophone. Ses intérêts de recherche portent sur les questions de l'écriture féminine, de l'environnement et de l'identité dans les littératures − prose et poésie − francophones. Malou Brouwer finished her research master in literary studies (Radboud University) in August 2017. Her thesis studies eroticism and sovereignty in Francophone and Anglophone Canadian Indigenous poetry. Her research interests include questions of women's writing, environment and identity in Francophone literatures − both prose and poetry.

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Published

2017-12-20

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 2 (2017): Contested Modernities

Section

II. Varia

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How to Cite

Brouwer, M. (2017) “The body as a zone of contact: eroticism and sovereignty in the work of Natasha Kanapé Fontaine”, RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, 11(2), pp. 84–102. doi:10.18352/relief.974.