Quebec Studies articles from September 22 2000

Quebec Studies archives from September 22 2000

French enigma: survival and development in Canada's Francophone societies.
September 22, 2000... STEBBINS, ROBERT A. The French Enigma: Survival and Development in Canada's Francophone Soceties. Calgary: Detselig Enterprises, 2000. Pp. 254. Robert A. Stebbins, a sociologist at the University of Calgary and a self-identified...

Nouveaux Territories de l'Art: regions, reseaux, place publique.
September 22, 2000... FORTIN, ANDREE. Nouveaux Territoires de l'Art: Regions, Reseaux, Place Publique. Quebec: Editions Nota bene, 2000. Pp. 319. This recent book by Fortin opens new directions in the exploration of several themes considered in her recent work,...

Ernest Lapointe and Quebec's influence on Canadian foreign policy.
September 22, 2000... MACFARLANE, JOHN. Ernest Lapointe and Quebec's Influence on Canadian Foreign Policy. Toronto: U Toronto P, 1999. Pp. 270. In this carefully crafted study, John MacFarlane emphasizes that Ernest Lapointe wielded important influence in the...

Getting it wrong: how Canadians forgot their past and imperiled confederation.
September 22, 2000... ROMNEY, PAUL. Getting it Wrong: How Canadians Forgot Their Past and Imperiled Confederation. Toronto: U Toronto P, 1999. Pp. 332. Since the October 1995 referendum, where the "yes" victory would have launched the country into the most...

Quebec dans l'espace americain.
September 22, 2000... BALTHAZAR, LOUIS, and ALFRED O. HERO, JR. Le Quebec dans l'espace americain. Montreal: Editions Quebec Amerique, 1999. Pp. 375. Two veteran analysts of Quebec public affairs examine the ties that bind Quebec to the United States. Linkages...

Ontario se raconte: De A a X: entrevues radiophoniques.
September 22, 2000... CHAMBERLAND, FRANCOIS-XAVIER. L'Ontario se raconte. De A a X: Entrevues radiophoniques. (Collection Dont actes 19). Toronto: Editions du GREF, 1999. Pp. 617. L'Ontario se raconte de Francois-Xavier Chamberland rassemble certaines entrevues...

Variations sur l'influence culturelle americaine.
September 22, 2000... SAUVAGEAU, FLORIAN. Variations sur l'influence culturelle americaine. (Culture Francaise d'Amerique) Sainte-Foy: PU Laval, 1999. Pp.262. Over the past decade and certainly since the Uruguay round of GATT, cultural products (movies, TV...

Recit quebecois comme fil d'Ariane.
September 22, 2000... EMOND, MAURICE. Le recit quebecois comme fil d'Ariane. Quebec: Editions Nota bene, 2000. Pp. 212. This volume is a collection of previously published essays assembled by the author from diverse sources including scholarly journals (e.g....

Convoyages: essais critiques.
September 22, 2000... MAJOR, ROBERT. Convoyages: Essais critiques. Orleans (ON): Les Editions David, 1999. Pp. 334. Robert Major's Convoyages is a collection of essays covering not only a broad range of literature, but also questions of cultural identity and...

Trajectoires au feminin dans la litterature quebecoise (1960-1990).
September 22, 2000... JOUBERT, LUCIE. Trajectoires au feminin dans la litterature quebecoise (1960-1990). Quebec: Editions Nota bene, 2000. Pp. 286. Trajectoires au feminin brings together fifteen essays on Quebec women writing between 1960 and 1990,...

Postmodernisme dans le fantastique quebecois.
September 22, 2000... A la suite de la Revolution tranquille, le Quebec a connu une profonde mutation ideologique et intellectuelle. Une litterature de tendance a la fois contestataire et identitaire est apparue, marquee par une perturbation majeure des enjeux de...

Subterfuges narratifs et identitaires dans L'Homme de paille de Daniel Poliquin.
September 22, 2000... ... la fantaisie est plus vraie que l'histoire. On oublie les faits, jamais ce qu'on a imagine (L'Homme de paille 138) La critique insiste depuis longtemps sur la nature heteroclite du roman contemporain. S'appuyant sur des idees de J.-F....

Sainte Anne as symbol of literacy in Quebec culture.
September 22, 2000... In visiting the churches of Quebec, one can hardly avoid an encounter with Ste. Anne. Undeniably, the mother of Mary and the grandmother of the Infant Jesus is one of the most popular and important saints throughout the province. Beyond that,...

Quebec confronts globalization: a model for the future?
September 22, 2000... There are roughly 190 nation-states in the world today, with two dozen being formal federations dividing authority between their national governments and approximately 350 major subnational governments such as Canadian provinces, American,...

Jacques Godbout and the Quebec writer: engendering the national text.
September 22, 2000... Although the 1960s saw an explosion of women's writing, the Quebec intellectual circles that most actively defined a new Quebecois identity in the era of the Revolution tranquille were strangely impervious to the participation of women as...

(Introduction to feminist readings of contemporary male writers).
September 22, 2000... Everyone, it seems, is suddenly talking about masculinity. The Winter 2000 issue of Lettres quebecoises features an interesting article by Francine Bordeleau, "L'ecrit du masculin"; a recent issue of Jeu, Cahiers du theatre (2000.4) is devoted...

Narrative cross-dressing and men "doing" motherhood: the case of Marie Auger/Mario G.'s Le ventre en tete.
September 22, 2000... Published in 1996 under the signature Marie Auger, Le ventre en tete(1) was in fact the first novel of a male writer in his thirties, Mario Girard, as journalists who contacted the author for an interview soon discovered. Paratextual play of...

When "next episodes" are no longer an option: Quebec men's writing in a postfeminist, postnationalist age.
September 22, 2000... In Hubert Aquin's 1965 novel Prochain episode, the narrator fights off suicidal depression by clinging to the idea of a revolution that will liberate his country and transform him into the powerful male figure he dreams of becoming: one who...

Making women pay: revolution, violence, decolonizing Quebec in Hubert Aquin's Trou de memoire.
September 22, 2000... It seems that at some point in her career, the feminist critic of Quebec literature is compelled to study Hubert Aquin, and in particular, his controversial and often violent rapport with all things female. It is not an altogether pleasant...