Essays

Smashing Time and Space: Ontological Poetry in the collection La Voyageuse by Andrée Lacelle

Véronique Arseneau ; University of Ottawa

Abstract

In her poetry collection La Voyageuse, published in 1995, Franco-Ontarian author Andrée Lacelle presents an eponymous character who travels between time and space, in an ontological dimension. Several road metaphors are used by Lacelle to describe the inner and intimate journey of the traveler. A little-known author outside of French-speaking Ontario, Andrée Lacelle uniquely poetizes her vision of Ontario, of the self and of writing. From an overview of the writing and reception contexts of this author in the Franco-Ontarian milieu, this article studies how this ontological poetry manages to circumvent or even dynamite the temporal and spatial limits and introduce a new space-time. Using Daniel Sibony’s concept of the in-between (1991) and Michel de Certeau’s theory of space, we analyse the Lacellian space as a “poetical transit”.

Keywords

Space; Time; In-between; Transit; Poetry; Franco-Canadian; Franco-Ontarian Literature; Andrée Lacelle

Hrčak ID:

228953

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/228953

Publication date:

26.11.2019.

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