What characterizes women as a group is our colonized status. To be colonized is not to think for oneself, to think on behalf of the other, to put one’s emotions to work in service of the other. In short, not to exist. For the reader of feminist literature, The Aerial Letter is a contribution of major significance. Combining twelve pieces developed since the midseventies, it challenges feminist cultural experience and imagination. Nicole Brossard’s reflections on writing and the emergence and survival of lesbians are hard-hitting and incisive. One has the imagination of one’s century, one’s culture, one’s particular social class, one’s decade and the imagination of what one reads, but above all one has the imagination of one’s body and of the sex which inhabits it.Nicole Brossard is known internationally for her writings on writing, on feminism and on lesbian existence. This edition released for a new wave of feminist outrage is a book full of spirit, energy, insight and cheek. Brossard is a major voice in contemporary literature with incisive and hard-hitting essays about feminist imagination and culture. "I believe there’s only one explanation for all of these texts: my desire and my will to understand patriarchal reality and how it works, not for its own sake but for its tragic consequences in the lives of women, in the life of the spirit. Years of anger, revolt, certitude and conviction are in The Aerial Letter, years of fighting against the screen which stands in the way of women’s energy, identity and creativity."—Nicole Brossard