TRAVERSING GENDERED SPACES with Nicole Brossard’s Lesbians: Figurations of Nomadic Subjectivity in "Picture Theory"
TRAVERSING GENDERED SPACES with Nicole Brossard’s Lesbians: Figurations of Nomadic Subjectivity in "Picture Theory"

Summary/Abstract: This paper proposes a reading of Nicole Brossard’s innovative "Picture Theory" in the context of Rosi Braidotti’s figuration of ‘nomadic subjectivity’ proposed in her 1994 study "Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory" and Elizabeth Grosz’s politics of corporeal feminism and nomad desire advanced in "Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism". I argue that the narrative of "Picture Theory" can be productively read in light of Braidotti and Grosz’s feminist speculative theorizations of nomadism and nomadic subjectivity as a kind of strategically deployed utopian vision with a political potential.

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