La politique des émotions chez Nicole Brossard : hybridité générique et corporéité affective dans l’écriture au féminin

Within its historical context, affect theory illuminates the political potential of feminist work as a form of political engagement. This is exemplified by Nicole Brossard (Montréal, 1943), whose vast cultural production spans more than sixty years. She is committed to écriture au féminin, producing hybrid works –characterised by a fluctuating «I» typical of théorie-fiction– that blur the boundaries between fiction and autobiography, blending literary genres in a mode where essayistic reflection predominates, while remaining fundamentally grounded in poetry. Insofar as vulnerability and embodiment occupy a central place within the ethics of care, this feminine literary universe emerges as a paradigm in which writing and life intertwine, «in the writing of the body and in the body of writing»