Quebec Studies articles from March 2001

Quebec Studies archives from March 2001

Presentation: voices in/on memory: tracing the past and shaping the future in contemporary women's writing.
March 22, 2001... The recovery of women's memories and their legitimization as an essential component of women's history--and indeed, of the history of humanity--have been two of feminism's most important goals since the late 1960s. In Quebec, the desire to...

Memoire: hologramme du desir.
March 22, 2001... Il y a des mots qui reviennent. Il y a des mots qui reviennent toujours nous chercher la meme ou nous croyions les chercher. Il y a des mots qui sont comme de grands fleuves qui traversent notre cortex, qui irriguent tout notre etre. Il y a des...

Going for Baroque in the twentieth century: from Desnos to Brossard.
March 22, 2001... J'escoute a demy transporte Le bruit des ailes du Silence. --Saint-Amant, "Le Contemplateur" (1628) The twentieth century witnessed a resurfacing of the baroque. Less a time period than "un levier methodologique," according to...

Memoire et ecriture: l'inscription du feminin dans l'histoire.
March 22, 2001... A la memoire de S. J'en conviens, ecrire n'a de sens que pour s'appliquer a bien vivre. --Nicole Brossard, Langues obscures Aujourd'hui, trente ans apres l'avenement du neofeminisme, est-il besoin de rappeler que les femmes au...

Fragments d'un parcour rememore: Journal pour memoire de France Theoret.
March 22, 2001... Dans la memoire, il y a la pluralite et la singularite des femmes. --France Theoret (1988, 190) De toute evidence, notre epoque parait obsedee par la memoire, par une veritable "retromanie" (Rioux 1985, 155): nous baignons,...

Quebec song: strategies in the cultural marketplace.
March 22, 2001... Thirty-five years after the simultaneous resurgence of Quebec nationalism and popular song during the Quiet Revolution, the soundscape in Quebec has changed substantially. The explicitly nationalist tendency of the earlier boite a chanson era...

Separation, mourning and consolation in La Route d'Altmont.
March 22, 2001... Gabrielle Roy's first novel was permeated by loss and separation; its title Bonheur d'occasion (1945) even suggests the attempt at replacement that, as we shall see, often is part of consolation. However, the central role of mourning in Roy's...

Corps derobe: handicap et condition postmoderne dans Homme invisible a la fenetre de Monique Proulx.
March 22, 2001... De prime abord, Homme invisible a la fenetre (1993)(1) de Monique Proulx a tout du meilleur best-seller: des personnages hauts en couleur, une intrigue fertile en rebondissements, des scenes cocasses, voire assez lestes--autant d'attributs qui...

Nouvelle France: the making of French Canada - a cultural history.
March 22, 2001... MOOGK, PETER N. La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada--A Cultural History. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2000. Pp. 340. As an English-speaking Canadian graduate student in Quebec in the 1960s, Peter Moogk discovered that...

Recits identitaires: le Quebec a l'epreuve du pluralisme.
March 22, 2001... MACLURE, JOCELYN. Recits identitaires: le Quebec a l'epreuve du pluralisme. (Collection Debats, Programme d'etudes sur le Quebec de l'Universite McGill). Montreal: Quebec Amerique, 2000. Pp.220 Depuis plus de trente ans, la societe...

Passer a l'avenir.
March 22, 2001... LETOURNEAU, JOCELYN. Passer a l'avenir. Montreal: Les Editions Boreal, 2000. Pp. 194. "Je me souviens," cette devise bien connue du Quebec, que les plaques d'immatriculation des automobiles rappellent sans cesse a l'attention des habitants...

Quebec: un pays, une culture.
March 22, 2001... FRANCOISE TETU DE LABSADE. Le Quebec: un pays, une culture (deuxieme edition revue et augmentee). Montreal: Boreal, 2001. Pp. 575. The second edition of Francoise Tetu de Labsade's overview of Quebec culture, Quebec: un pays, une culture,...

Canada observed: perspectives from abroad and from within.
March 22, 2001... KLEIST, JURGEN and SHAWN HUFFMAN, eds. Canada Observed: Perspectives from Abroad and from Within. (Plattsburgh Studies in the Humanities 7). New York: Peter Lang, 2000. Pp. 203. Appropriately for a volume dedicated to the memory of our...

Women writing in Quebec: essays in honour of Jeanne Kissner.
March 22, 2001... GILBERT, PAULA RUTH, MARY JEAN GREEN, JANE MOSS, and LEE BRISCOE THOMPSON. Women Writing in Quebec. Essays in Honor of Jeanne Kissner. SUNY Plattsburgh: Center for the Study of Canada, 2000. Pp. 151 This volume of essays is dedicated to the...

Entre femmes et jeune femmes: le roman pour adolescentes en France et au Quebec.
March 22, 2001... DI CECCO, DANIELA. Entre femmes et jeunes fimmes: Le roman pour adolescentes en France et au Quebec. Montreal: Editions du Remue-menage, 2000. Jo March, Arme of Green Gables, Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden--heroines of my youth! Role models?...

Gabrielle Roy inedite.
March 22, 2001... RICARD, FRANCOIS and JANE EVERETT, eds. Gabrielle Roy inedite. (Collection Seminaires). Quebec: Editions Nota bene, 2000. Pp. 232. The essays in this collection were initially presented at a seminar that took place at McGill University on...

Daughter of Christopher Columbus.
March 22, 2001... DUCHARME, REJEAN. The Daughter of Christopher Columbus. Will Browning, trans. Toronto: Guernica Editions, Inc., 2000. Pp. 294. Undertaking the translation of writings by major literary figures is in itself a delicate and painstaking...

Theater sans frontieres: essays on the dramatic universe of Robert Lepage.
March 22, 2001... DONOHOE, JOSEPH I. and JANE KOUSTAS, eds. Theater sans frontieres, Essays on The Dramatic Universe of Robert Lepage. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State UP, 2000. Pp. 269. Editors Donohoe and Koustas have published in book form a...

Produire la culture, produire l'identite.
March 22, 2001... FORTIN, ANDREE, dir. Produire la culture, produire l'identite. (CEFAN, Culture francaise de l'Amerique). Sainte-Foy: PU Laval, 2000. Pp.264 Cet ouvrage, dirige par Andree Fortin, sociologue a l'Universite Laval, reunit une serie de...

Montreal: the quest for a metropolis.
March 22, 2001... GERMAIN, ANNICK and DAMARIS ROSE. Montreal: the Quest for a Metropolis. Chichester, England: John Wiley and Sons, 2000. Pp. 306. Quebec's major cities are undergoing a sea change in the nature of their organization, finance, administration,...

Franco-Americains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre.
March 22, 2001... ROBY, YVES. Les Franco-Americains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Reves et realites. Sillery: Septentrion, 2000. Pp. 526. Yves Roby's monumental study of French-Canadian immigration to New England is the fruit of thirty years of research and...

Krieghoff: images of Canada.
March 22, 2001... REID, DENNIS. Krieghoff: Images of Canada. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1999. Pp.323. Cornelius Krieghoff's paintings, the majority of which depict the picturesque winter and autumn rural scenery in and around Montreal and Quebec City...