Murder at the Red Arrow Motel: Nicole Brossardfs <em>Mauve Desert</em> as Dystopic Mystery

Authors

  • Chris Fox Simon Fraser University

Keywords:

Biography (literary form), Detective/Mystery stories, Homosexuality, Lesbians in literature, Women authors

Abstract

In Mauve Desert, a novel of two fictions, that of the translation itself and the narrative that forms the content to be translated, Nicole Brossard makes creative and minimal use of elements of the mystery novel genre to evoke an intellectual curiosity and emotional desire for understanding in readers. Brossard seduces readers into an investigative role by means of the postmodern complexities and opportunities of the metatranslational narrative and the gaps she leaves in the traditional mystery genre.

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Published

1998-10-01