Nelly Arcan, une postféministe?

Abstract

The article proposes to reconsider the place taken by Nelly Arcan’s work in the women’s and feminist thinking in Quebec in the last years. The author discusses the concepts like the passivity of writer’s main characters, her conception of femininity and the fatalism which characterize her female characters. The aim of the article is to shed light in Nelly Arcan’s vision and renewal of the contemporary Quebecer literature. Her intimate, provocative, furious and dark novels bring out the deadlock on the women’s thinking nowadays and challenge the achievements of the claims of the feminist movements.