Quebec Studies articles from March 2003

Quebec Studies archives from March 2003

Editor's note.(Editorial)
March 22, 2003... Few ideas have been more influential in contemporary literary theory over the last decade than that of "postcolonialism." And yet, while francophone studies across the United States have been energized by postcolonial theory in its various...

Presentation: en quoi la litterature quebecoise est-elle postcoloniale?
March 22, 2003... Comment se situer dans le vaste champ d'idees que constituent aujourd'hui les etudes postcoloniales? Cette interrogation semble avoir occupe simultanement plusieurs penseurs de facon independante. Une collection d'essais, dirige par Laura Moss,...

Les Pays du nouveau monde, le postcolonialisme de consensus, et le catholicisme quebecois (1).
March 22, 2003... Le Quebec a fait montre de sa maturite democratique au referendum. Le debat public est ici tellement important... Certaines societes cherchent la violence, d'autres, le consensus. --Emile Ollivier (cite par Leduc 1996) Bien que le...

Rereading Quebecois literature in a postcolonial context.
March 22, 2003... The title of my paper may seem surprising. Has Quebecois literature not been interpreted very frequently, at least since the 1960s, in a postcolonial context, if we accept Ashcroft, Griffiths, and Tiffin's very general definition of...

Writing of/from the Fourth World: Gabrielle Roy and Ungava.
March 22, 2003... Any analysis of Canada in terms of postcolonial theory or criticism exposes the specific complexities of Canada's particular colonial history. As Robert Young states: colonialism involved an extraordinary range of different forms ...

Le debat postcolonial et le Quebec.
March 22, 2003... Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Postcolonialism... Les Anglo-saxons auraient-ils une longueur d'avance? Toujours est-il qu'alors que le debat fait rage Outre-Manche et Outre-Atlantique et que les publications y fleurissent en tout sens, la...

Toward defining a postcolonial Quebec cinema: the films of Claude Jutra.
March 22, 2003... To use the term postcolonial as a modifier for Quebec is to complicate an already endlessly complicated terminological debate. Yet, as I will argue, to read certain Quebec texts through the lens of postcolonial theory is to illuminate them from...

De l'opposition a l'ambivalence: la theorie postcoloniale et l'ecriture de la resistance au Quebec.
March 22, 2003... Plutot que de discuter d'une maniere generale de la pertinence de la theorie postcoloniale pour l'etude de la litterature quebecoise, cet article prend comme sujet une question plus precise: celle de l'ecriture de la resistance, une question...

Rush to judgment? Postcolonial criticism and Quebec.
March 22, 2003... There is a commonly held view in Quebec studies today that postcolonial theory and postcolonial criticism are underused and underrepresented. Is this a bad thing? The underlying assumption is that the introduction of postcolonial theory and...

Corralling the wild ponies: correspondences between Quebec and the postcolonial.
March 22, 2003... Theory, we might conclude, does not give rise to harmonious solutions... [It] offers not a set of solutions but the prospect of further thought. It calls for the commitment to the work of reading, of challenging presuppositions, of questioning...

Francophone ... but not like the others: notes on Quebec studies in the United States.
March 22, 2003... When I arrived in the United States in August 1999 to take up a position at Bowling Green State University where I was to teach, along with regular French courses, Quebec literature and culture, I approached my situation with great excitement...

Santoro, Milena. Mothers of Invention: Feminist Authors and Experimental Fiction in France and Quebec.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's UP, 2002. Pp.348. To some degree, Milena Santoro's comparative study of selected works by Helene Cixous, Madeleine Gagnon, Nicole Brossard, and Jeanne Hyvrard covers existing critical ground. The...

Nardout-LaRarge, Elisabeth. Rejean Ducharme: une poetique du debris.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Montreal: Fides, 2001. Pp. 310. From L'Avalee des avales (1966) to Gros mots (1999), Rejean Ducharme's seminal literary output has generated probing critical commentary and earned him significant recognition (the Prix du Gouverneur General...

Julie LeBlanc. Enonciation et inscription du sujet: textes et avant-textes de Gilbert La Rocque.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Toronto: Editions du Gref, 2000. Pp. 302. Specialiste de l'auteur quebecois Gilbert La Rocque--elle signait en 1998 une edition critique remarquee d'un de ses romans, Les Masques--Julie LeBlanc s'interesse a la narrativite contemporaine en...

L'Ecuyer, Eugene. La Fille du brigand. Oeuvres choisies.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. Jean-Guy Hudon. Sainte-Foy: Les Editions de la Huit, 2001. Pp. 426. Eugene L'Ecuyer has suffered the fate of a number of nineteenth-century Quebec authors who wrote primarily for newspapers and magazines, failing to publish books...

Banks, Kenneth J. Chasing the Empire Across the Sea: Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens UP, 2002. Pp. 319. Throughout the historiographical process of investigating and writing about the establishment, survival, and capitulation of the French colonies in the New World, very little attention...

Hoberg, George (ed). La capacite de choisir: le Canada dans une nouvelle Amerique du Nord.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Montreal: PU de Montreal, 2002. Pp. 379. Since the birth of the self-styled British North American "dominion" of Canada in 1867, public policy elites as well as ordinary Canadians have in the past and will post-NAFTA hemispherization and...

Serre, Pierre. Deux Poids, Deux Mesures: L'Impact du Vote des Non-Francophones au Quebec.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Montreal: VLB Editeur, 2002. Pp. 262. In this fascinating and data-rich book, Pierre Serre challenges conventional assumptions about the political power of nonfrancophones in Quebec and argues that nonfrancophones wield power within the...