Abstract
Nicole Houde's 1986 novel La Maison du remous rewrote the traditional Quebec novel of the land from a female point of view, emphasizing the mother-daughter relationship. This article looks at the way close attention to gender makes it possible to rethink genre and rewrite literary history, contrasting La Maison du remous and La Terre paternelle. A close reading of the novel reveals that its characteristic anti-realism and rejection of chronology in favor of a fluid spiral structure, as well as its double reading of madness, language, sexuality and motherhood as the locus both of opptession and liberation for women, link it to a new trend in Quebec women's writing towards rethinking historical, political and narrative issues through individual women's lives.
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