%0 Journal Article
%T "If We Dare To": Border Crossings in Erin Mour¨¦¡¯s O Cidad¨¢n
%A Johanna Skibsrud
%J The Brock Review
%D 2010
%I 
%X This essay explores the space of contact between languages¨Cparticularly that of French and English¨Cwithin Erin Mour¨¦¡¯s recent collection of poetry, O Cidad¨¢n. The following discussion demonstrates the manner in which a tangible place for each language, without appropriating one into another, is created on the page. Drawing on the writings of Mary Louise Pratt and Jacques Derrida, I argue that instead of defining the language interaction, or translating one language into another, Mour¨¦ constructs a "contact zone" where deferring/differing spaces of language intersect and are made "visible" and are "touched."
%K Canadian Literature
%K poetry
%K language
%K Erin Mour¨¦
%K Derrida
%U http://www.brocku.ca/brockreview/index.php/brockreview/article/view/91/264