Quebec Studies articles from March 22 1999

Quebec Studies archives from March 22 1999

Editor's note.
March 22, 1999... Mikhail Bakhtin's writing on the carnivalesque has long proven suggestive to scholars of Quebec literature, and this issue of Quebec Studies begins with two essays that demonstrate how original and productive deployments of it are far from...

Jeanne Kissner 1942-1999.
March 22, 1999... This issue of Quebec Studies is dedicated to Jeanne Kissner who passed away unexpectedly on February 19, 1999. Jeanne was born in New Haven, Connecticut and educated at Albertus Magnus College (B.A.), Trinity College (M.A.), and the...

Indigestible stew and holy piss: the politics of food in Rodolphe Girard's Marie Culumet.
March 22, 1999... by Susan Kevra Marlboro College Depuis sa publication en 1904, Marie Calumet de Rodolphe Girard a suscite de nombreuses polemiques a cause de l'anticlericalisme du roman et l'audace d'un auteur qui osait parler du corps et du desir...

Gerard Etienne et le carnaval: pour une esthetique de la revolte au feminin.
March 22, 1999... par Mounia Benalil University of British Columbia The essay tackles the issue of female identity in the fictional and the theoretical work of Gerard Etienne. The novels of the present study, Une femme muette (1983) and La Reine soleil...

Gabrielle Roy: coherence du parcours litteraire et espace autobiographique.
March 22, 1999... par Cecilia Wiktorowicz Mount Allison University This article sets out to demonstrate that the coherence of Gabrielle Roy's prose stems from the cognitivo-pathemic dimensionof narration characterizing both her fiction and life inspired...

Comment ecrire un roman sans se fatiguer: strategies perlocutoires d'un best-seller chez Dany Laferriere.
March 22, 1999... par Pascale De Souza Johns Hopkins University Comment faire l'amour avec un Negre sans se fatiguer was well received by both the Quebecois public and literary critics. Four narrative strategies enable Dany Laferriere to ensure this...

Eros, le cri et l'anaphore: Signaux pour les voyants de Gilles Henault.
March 22, 1999... par Sebastien Joachim Universite federale de Pernambuco-Recife (Bresil) Signaux pour les voyants by Gilles Henault involves its readers in a reflection on language. A paradoxical reflection, however, since these poems use language to...

Andre Laurendeau: the search for political equality and social justice.
March 22, 1999... By Alain-G. Gagnon McGill University L'etude de la pensee politique d'Andre Laurendeau nous amene a constater a quel point les notions de communaute, d'egalite et de liberte sont etroitement imbriquees les unes dans les autres. Si le...

Legacy of Refus global: a round table discussion held at the Biennial meeting of the American Council for Quebec Studies, Charleston SC, November 1998.
March 22, 1999... Robbie Schwartzwald (RSS): Today, three very distinguished people will help us consider the legacy of Refus global. I want to begin by picking up on something that the four of us discussed earlier this morning: as the 50th anniversary...

"Enfants de Refus global" by Manon Barbeau: from official commemoration to memory as mourning process.
March 22, 1999... By Ginette Michaud Universite de Montreal De tous les evenements celebrant le cinquantieme anniversaire du manifeste Refus global, le film de Manon Barbeau, Les Enfants de Refus global, est celui qui suscite la plus vive reaction lors...

Femmes du REFUS GLOBAL.
March 22, 1999... Montreal: Boreal, 1998. Pp. 334. Dans son dernier ouvrage, Patricia Smart entreprend d'eclairer sous un jour nouveau une etape essentielle dans l'accession du Quebec a la modernite: la signature du manifeste Refus global. En choisissant de...

Envol des signes. Borduas et ses lettres.
March 22, 1999... (Collection Nouvelles Etudes Quebecoises.) Montreal: Fides-CETUQ, 1996. Pp 275. Specialiste bien connu de Paul-Emile Borduas, Gilles Lapointe s'est penche dans L'Envol des signes sur le vaste corpus epistolaire du peintre, lequel...

Ecrits II t1: journal, correspondance (1923-1953); t2: correspondance (1954-1960).
March 22, 1999... Bourrassa, Andre-G., et Gilles Lapointe, eds. Montreal: PU de Montreal (Collection Bibliotheque du Nouveau Monde), 1997. Pp. 1159. This two-volume set presents an "Edition critique" of an early diary and the complete correspondence of...

Etude des poesies d'Emile Nelligan.
March 22, 1999... Collection Classiques quebecois expliques, 3.) Montreal: Boreal, 1997. Pp. 110. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Emile Nelligan's dramatic poetic triumph before the Ecole litteraire de Montreal in May 1899, this intelligent...

100 livres quebecois pour la jeunesse qu'il faut lire.
March 22, 1999... (Collection "Les petits guides.") Quebec: Editions Nota Bene, 1998. Pp. 371. "La litterature quebecoise pour la jeunesse existe depuis plus de soixante-dix ans!" It is with this exclamation that Edith Madore begins her guide to Les 100...

Incriminations: guilty women/Telling stories.
March 22, 1999... Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994. Pp. 215. Although it was published several years ago, Karen McPherson's intriguing study of guilt and storytelling in women's writings from France, Quebec, and Great Britain has not yet been reviewed in Quebec...

New world myth: postmodernism and postcolonialism in Canadian fiction.
March 22, 1999... Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens UP, 1998. Pp. 339. In the Preface to New World Myth, Marie Vautier establishes the parameters of her study: an examination of six works of fiction from both anglophone and francophone Canada that oppose...

Roman quebecois et ses (inter)discours: analyses sociocritiques.
March 22, 1999... (Collection "Litterature(s)".) Montreal: Editions Nota bene, 1998. Pp. 224. Professeur de litterature a l'Institut d'etudes romanes de l'Universite de Varsovie, auteur du Roman quebecois de 1960 a 1975: ideologie et representations...

Fils du notaire. Jacques Ferron (1921-1949). Genese intellectuelle d'un ecrivain.
March 22, 1999... Montreal: Fides, 1997. Pp. 428. There has been an abundance of critical studies on, and new editions of, the work of the brilliant Quebec "polygraphe," Jacques Ferron (1921-1985), in the nearly 15 years since his death. At the time of...

Francois-Xavier Garneau, une figure nationale.
March 22, 1999... sous la direction de Gilles Gallichan, Kenneth Landry et Denis Saint-Jacques. Quebec: Editions Nota Bene (Cahiers du CRELIQ, n[degrees] 23), 1998. Pp. 399. En 1845 parait a Quebec le premier volume d'une Histoire du Canada qui vaudra a son...

Louisiana and Quebec: bilateral relations and comparative sociopolitical evolution.
March 22, 1999... Lanham, MD: UP of America, 1995. Pp. 381 + xxx. In the late nineteenth century prominent French Quebecers looked to Louisiana with a sense of superiority; for even as the Eastern Townships and the Ottawa Valley were becoming increasingly...

Misconceiving Canada: the struggle for national unity.
March 22, 1999... Toronto, New York, and Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997. Pp. 395. This is an excellent and particularly important book for anglophone North Americans on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border interested in Quebec, the rest of Canada (ROC), Canada as...