Abstract
The body/core of the character The body is our solitude, writes Nicole Brossard, our only certitude, but because the body has eyes for seeing, ears for hearing, amemory for storytelling, and words for drawing relationships, we are not alone.... The body is gregarious, but it insists upon its singularity, its intimacy. Take that away and you take away its honour. The body likes to be seen, but reduce aperson to her/his body and you humiliate the person. In this text, Brossard remembers the body at various moments in her writing: the so-called neutral body ofmodernity that had no gender other than that of sensuality, transgression, and subversion; the body of the mother, heavywith the weight ofidentifying as awoman; the lesbian body, an aerian body that displaces itself constantly in the direction ofanother woman; and the body ofwriting, abody trying to escape the body through language.
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