Quebec Studies articles from March 2004

Quebec Studies archives from March 2004

Editor's note.(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... The Quebec political landscape is always changing, and it is a challenge for an academic journal to look beneath the seasonal variations to capture some of its deeper tectonic shifts. The opening section of this issue of Quebec Studies does...

The changing party system in Quebec: the 2003 elections and beyond (1).
March 22, 2004... In contrast to the 1998 Quebec election--"the election everybody won" (Allan, O'Reilly, and Vengroff), at first glance the 2003 election result seems much more decisive. The Patti Liberal du Quebec (PLQ) achieved a clear majority, winning 76 of...

Generational replacement, value shifts, and support for a sovereign Quebec (1).
March 22, 2004... This article examines the values of different generations of Quebecers and considers how values influence whether Quebecers support or oppose sovereignty. My previous research has demonstrated that supporters of sovereignty are more likely than...

Pierre Falardeau and Michel Brault, the FLQ and the Patriotes: Hollywood vs. modernism.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... "The modernist does not commit himself. He considers, and is critical." --Douwe Fokkema and Elrud Ibsch (3) "Critics who vehemently attack modernism for being ahistorical, on grounds of its preoccupation with formal order, often open...

Modalities of mourning: lamentation and traumatic grief in the theater of Normand Chaurette.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... "Already madness has taken Half my soul under its wing, Giving me heady wine to drink, Into a dark valley beckoning. And I have come to terms with this: The battle's lost." --"Requiem" (Akhmatova 93) The...

La poetique historique transnationale de Joel Des Rosiers.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... Dans son ouvrage sur les litteratures noires des Ameriques, Caliban without Prospero, Max Dorsinville explique en 1974 que desormais la notion de "litterature nationale" doit faire place a ce qu'il appelle "minor literatures": "what 'makes the...

Food and the generation gap in Gabrielle Roy's Bonheur d'occasion.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... Gabrielle Roy's novel Bonheur d'occasion (1945), set in the working-class Montreal neighborhood of St. Henri during the spring of 1940, has been interpreted as a realistic depiction of an epoch of tension and transition that occurred when two...

Undressing the text: the function of clothing in Gabrielle Roy's Bonheur d'occasion.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... Gabrielle Roy's 1947 speech to the Societe royale du Canada amounts to a brief sequel to her 1945 novel, Bonheur d'occasion. In the address, she describes what had transpired in the lives of her characters in the years since the end of the...

Ying Chen's evolving Lettres chinoises: an addendum.(Research Notes)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... In an article in the previous issue of Quebec Studies, I proposed that Ying Chen's 1998 revisions of Lettres chinoises, originally published in 1993, alter our reading experience of the text and represent a significant moment in the development...

Tremblay, Roseline. L'Ecrivain imaginaire: Essai sur le roman quebecois, 1960-1995.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... TREMBLAY, ROSELINE. L'Ecrivain imaginaire: Essai sur le roman quebecois, 1960-1995. Montreal: Hurtubise, 2004. Pp. 600 In this comprehensive study, Roseline Tremblay takes into account the increasing number of Quebecois authors who portray...

Magnan, Lucie-Marie et Christian Morin. 100 pieces quebecoises qu'il faut fire et voir.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... MAGNAN, LUCIE-MARIE et CHRISTIAN MORIN. 100 pieces quebecoises qu'il faut fire et voir. Quebec: Editions Nota Bene, 2002. Pp. 441. This book on theater--like other books published by Nota Bene which identify the hundred most important...

Dupre, Louise, Jaap Lintvelt, et Janet Paterson (eds). Sexuation, espace, ecriture: la litterature quebecoise en transformation.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... DUPRE, LOUISE, JAAP LINTVELT, et JANET PATERSON (eds). Sexuation, espace, ecriture: la litterature quebecoise en transformation. (Collection Litteratures.) Quebec: Nota bene, 2002. Pp 487. These essays are the acts of a conference held in...

Bouchard, Gerard. Les Deux Chanoines: Contradiction et ambivalence dans la pensee de Lionel Groulx.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... BOUCHARD, GERARD. Les Deux Chanoines: Contradiction et ambivalence dans la pensee de Lionel Groulx. Montreal: Boreal, 2003, Pp. 313. Important figures of 1930s Depression culture, Lionel Groulx compares easily with Father Charles E....

Morantz, Toby. The White Man's Gonna Getcha: the Colonial Challenge to the Crees in Quebec.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... MORANTZ, TOBY. The White Man's Gonna Getcha: The Colonial Challenge to the Crees in Quebec. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's U P, 2002. Pp. 370. Much ink has been spilled over the James Bay hydroelectric controversy over the past...

Coates, Colin M., and Cecilia Morgan. Heroines and History: Representations of Madeleine de Vercheres and Laura Secord.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... COATES, COLIN M., and CECILIA MORGAN. Heroines and History: Representations of Madeleine de Vercheres and Laura Secord. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: U Toronto P, 2002. Pp. 368. This excellent book, co-authored by Colin M. Coates and...

Rudin, Ronald. Founding Fathers: the Celebration of Champlain and Laval in the Streets of Quebec, 1878-1908.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... RUDIN, RONALD. Founding Fathers: The Celebration of Champlain and Laval in the Streets of Quebec, 1878-1908. Toronto: U Toronto P, 2003. Pp. 290. In Founding Fathers, Ronald Rudin carries out a systematic, comparative, descriptive analysis...