SOURCE: "Feminism and Postmodernism," in American Book Review, Vol. 10, No. 2, May-June, 1988, pp. 8, 20.

In the following review, Godard discusses Nicole Brossard's Le Désert mauve and Gail Scott's Heroine and asserts that "It will be hard for [other writers to surpass the brilliance of the writing of Gail Scott and Nicole Brossard in their critiques of representation and of narrative."]

Especially in Quebec, feminists have played an important role in theorizing postmodernism through their intervention as editors of the prominent periodicals La nouvelle barre du jour and Spirale, of which Nicole Brossard and Gail Scott were founding coeditors, respectively. The feminist editor of Island and Periodics, Daphne Marlatt, fulfilled a similar, if less lauded, function in English-Canadian writing. Feminism in these milieux has been seen as the salient feature of postmodernism through its deconstruction of binary oppositions and its critique of the master narratives of Western culture, indeed its...