Quebec Studies articles from March 2005

Quebec Studies archives from March 2005

Presentation.(overview to Quebec Studies issue on 'l'ecriture migrante' or 'migrant writings')
March 22, 2005... As scholars who have a continuing interest in exploring issues related to themes of exile and alienation in contemporary Quebecois literature, we were pleased to be asked to edit this special Quebec Studies dossier on "l'ecriture migrante." Our...

Why Montreal? Regine Robin's rewriting of the city in L'Immense fatigue des pierres.
March 22, 2005... In La Quebecoite, Regine Robin's 1983 classic of Quebec immigrant writing, the wandering character traces complicated itineraries through three different sections of Montreal, each ending in a compulsive pattern of return to the place of...

Toward an anthropology of place in migrant writing: place, non-place, and "other spaces" in fiction by Regine Robin.
March 22, 2005... That place plays a central role in migrant writing is axiomatic. (1) Indeed, the most common categories used to distinguish the different social contexts and historical phases of immigrant and migrant writing--multicultural, intercultural,...

Bearing witness and transmitting memory in the works of Marie-Celie Agnant.
March 22, 2005... ... there should be no dead, silenced, forgotten foremothers among us, for it is they who provide us with a guide to a memory that will transform our forward motion. (Chancy, Searching for Safe Spaces 214) ... il voulut se faire voix, voix...

Declining the stereotype in the work of Stanley Lloyd Norris, Max Dorsinville, and Dany Laferriere.
March 22, 2005... Il y avait un mythe du negre qu'il fallait demolir coute que coute. (Frantz Fanon, 94) Les gens ne savent pas ce que c'est que le jazz.... cela fait partie d'une mythologie a detruire. (Max Dorsinville, James Wait 227) It has often...

Une heritiere rebelle: Heroine de Gail Scott et la representation des francophones.("Heroine" a novel by Anglo-Montreal author Gail Scott)
March 22, 2005... Lors de sa parution en 1987, Heroine, le premier roman de Gail Scott, se demarquait d'une tradition anglo-montrealaise souvent etrangere aux realites francophones. Non que les auteurs anglo-quebecois, avant Scott, aient ignore la langue...

Memories of urban development: Michael Delisle's Dee.
March 22, 2005... One of the many qualities of Michael Delisle's second novel, Dee, published in 2002 to laudatory reviews, is the way it invites us to rethink the relationship between literary and urban development in Quebec. According to the broad consensus of...

Quebec politics: selective readings, suggested themes.(Pedagogical Forum; tips for US professors to create course on Quebec politics)
March 22, 2005... Course Objectives--General Themes This article addresses specifically those professors of political science who teach in the United States and who wish to prepare a new course, or revamp an existing one on Quebec politics. It provides a...

Lachapelle, Guy. Claude Ryan et la Violence du pouvoir: Le Devoir et la Crise d'octobre 1970 ou le Combat de journalistes democrates.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... LACHAPELLE, GUY. Claude Ryan et la Violence du pouvoir: Le Devoir et la Crise d'octobre 1970 ou le Combat de journalistes democrates. Coll. Prisme. Quebec: PU Laval, 2005. Pp. xxviii, 192. ISBN 2-7637-8213-2. Apres le deces de Claude Ryan...

Forsyth, Louise H., ed. Nicole Brossard: Essays on Her Works.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... FORSYTH, LOUISE H., ed. Nicole Brossard: Essays on Her Works. (Writers Series 18). Toronto: Guernica, 2005. Pp. 255. ISBN 1-55071-233-0. Cet ouvrage collectif reunit onze etudes sur l'oeuvre de Nicole Brossard. Louise H. Forsyth fait ici...

Ouellet, Fernard, et al. Cahiers Charlevoix 6: etudes francoontariennes.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... OUELLET, FERNARD, et al. Cahiers Charlevoix 6: etudes francoontariennes. Sudbury: Societe Charlevoix and Prise de parole, 2004. Pp. 295. ISBN 2-89423-174-1 (volume 6). This is the sixth volume of the Cahiers Charlevoix, the voice of the...

Hebert, Pierre. Censure et litterature au Quebec. Des vieux couvents au plaisir de vivre--1920-1959.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... HEBERT, PIERRE. Censure et litterature au Quebec. Des vieux couvents au plaisir de vivre--1920-1959. Montreal : Fides, 2004. Pp. 252. ISBN 2-7621-2343-7. Avec la collaboration de Elise Sataun. Notons d'entree de jeu que l'auteur s'est...

Bleton, Paul et Poirier, Mario. Le vagabond stoique. Louis Hemon.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... BLETON, PAUL ET POIRIER, MARIO. Le vagabond stoique. Louis Hemon. (Collection "Socius") Montreal: Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 2004. Pp. 264. After its publication in book form in May 1921 by Bernard Grasset, Maria Chapdelaine...