Quebec Studies articles from September 2001

Quebec Studies archives from September 2001

Editor's note.(Editorial)
September 22, 2001... Thanks to Greenpeace, "Think globally, act locally" has become a political catchphrase. And indeed, one of the most important results of recent thinking about the globalization of trade is a new focus on the activities of political units below...

Quebec City, Montreal, and the impacts of globalization.
September 22, 2001... Economists and political scientists have been analyzing the consequences of the set of forces lumped under the rubric "globalization" for a couple of decades. The combination of trade liberalization, the opening of financial markets, and a...

Quebec, Francophonie, and globalization.
September 22, 2001... Quebec has somewhat contradictory interests in participating both in a global economy and in protecting its particular cultural heritage. Uniquely, the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie serves both of these interests, by embracing...

Discourses of female criminality: Suzanne Jacob's L'Obeissance, a novel of infanticide/filicide.
September 22, 2001... Although it is commonplace to refer to the killing of any child--newborn or older--by either parent as infanticide, current legal definitions of infanticide and filicide are well defined and are quite country-specific. According to Black's Law...

Seuils de la modernite: trente arpents et Bonheur d'occasion *.
September 22, 2001... Des l'aube, ce qui nait cherche son nom. Octavio Paz "Un nom, c'est plus serieux que le sang. Je ne le savais pas, je l'ai appris," (Ferron 172) affirme Cadieu, le personnage d'un des derniers contes de Jacques Ferron. Ainsi...

Entre litterature et histoire: le je collectif de la critique quebecoise.
September 22, 2001... Toute preoccupation de litterature nationale est piegee. Elle part d'un principe qui privilegie les effets de miroitement du langage et ses concretions socio-politiques. --Jacques Brault, "Murir et mourir" Piegees, les preoccupations...

Travers de la modernite: don, culture, et speculation chez Saint-Denys Garneau.
September 22, 2001... De la decennie des annees trente, Fernand Dumont disait qu'elle faisait figure de "premiere Revolution tranquille." A cause du choc de la crise economique on y retrouvait tre veritable climat d'effervescence intellectuelle cree par le defi que...

Emily Dickinson de Saint-Hyacinthe: la poetesse americaine au Quebec.
September 22, 2001... Autant que par leur particularite linguistique, les Quebecois sont distingues par leur particularite religieuse. En ce qui concerne le sacre, Catholiques et au-dessus du Rio-Grande, les gens du Quebec en tant que collectivite ont eu une...

Doran, Charles F. Why Canadian Unity Matters and Why Americans Care: Democratic Pluralism at Risk.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... DORAN, CHARLES F. Why Canadian Unity Matters and Why Americans Care: Democratic Pluralism at Risk. Toronto: U Toronto P, 2001. Pp. 300. Once again, Charles Doran has written an ambitious book concerning the importance of Canadian politics...

Dumont, Fernand. Un temoin de l'homme. Entretiens colliges et presentes par Serge Cantin.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... DUMONT, FERNAND. Un temoin de l'homme. Entretiens colliges et presentes par Serge Cantin. Montreal: l'Hexagone, 2000. Pp. 356. The jury still deliberates in the case of Fernand Dumont. Is he the "negative nationalist" of John Saul's...

Reisner, M.E., ed. The Diary of a Country Clergyman, 1848-1851. James Reid.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... REISNER, M.E., ed. The Diary of a Country Clergyman, 1848-1851. James Reid. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's UP, 2000. Pp. lxxxvii+393. M.E. Reisner has presented us with an excellent micro-history based on the twenty-second and...

Coates, Colin M. The Metamorphoses of Landscape and Community in Early Quebec.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... COATES, COLIN M. The Metamorphoses of Landscape and Community in Early Quebec. (Studies on the History of Quebec) Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 2000. Pp.231. This reworked Ph.D. dissertation studies the social and economic history of two...

Moran, James E. Committed to the State Asylum: Insanity and Society in Nineteenth-Century Quebec and Ontario.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... MORAN, JAMES E. Committed to the State Asylum: Insanity and Society in Nineteenth-Century Quebec and Ontario. (McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services [Hannah Institute] Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society, Vol. 10)...

Massell, David. Amassing Power, J.B. Duke and the Saguenay River, 1897-1927.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... MASSELL, DAVID. Amassing Power, J.B. Duke and the Saguenay River, 1897-1927. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's. UP, 2000. Pp. 301. Amassing Power is a detailed study of the negotiations between J. B. Duke, the tobacco entrepreneur, and...

Green, Mary Jean. Women and Narrative Identity: Rewriting the Quebec National Text.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... GREEN, MARY JEAN. Women and Narrative Identity: Rewriting the Quebec National Text. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's UP, 2001. Pp. 197. Since her last book-length study of Quebec literature devoted to Marie-Claire Blais, Mary Jean...

Gilbert, Paula Ruth, and Roseanna L. Dufault, eds. Doing Gender: Franco-Canadian Women Writers of the 1990s.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... GILBERT, PAULA RUTH, and ROSEANNA L. DUFAULT, eds. Doing Gender: Franco-Canadian Women Writers of the 1990s. Madison, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson UP, Associated University Presses, 2001. Pp. 396. Although this collection of essays traces recent...

Moisan, Clement, and Renate Hildebrand. Ces Etrangers du dedans: une histoire de l'ecriture migrante au Quebec, 1937-1997.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... MOISAN, CLEMENT, and RENATE HILDEBRAND. Ces Etrangers du dedans: une histoire de l'ecriture migrante au Quebec, 1937-1997. Quebec: editions Nota Bene, 2001. Pp. 364. Borrowing from Emile Ollivier in an attempt to capture the tension and...

Lintvelt, Jaap and Francois Pare, eds. Frontieres flottantes: Lieu et espace dans les cultures francophones du Canada/Shifting Boundaries: Place and space in the francophone cultures of Canada.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... LINTVELT, JAAP and FRANCOIS PARE, eds. Frontieres flottantes: Lieu et espace dans les cultures francophones du Canada/Shifting Boundaries: Place and space in the francophone cultures of Canada. (Collection Faux Titre) Amsterdam, New York:...

Gauvin, Lise. Langagement: l'ecrivain et la langue au Quebec.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... GAUVIN, LISE. Langagement: l'ecrivain et la langue au Quebec. Montreal: Editions du Boreal, 2000. Pp. 258. Language Lies, Language Meant, Engagement in Language, Engaging Language, Gauging Language, Wagering on Language, even Gagging on...

Marshall, Bill. Quebec National Cinema.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... MARSHALL, BILL. Quebec National Cinema. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's UP, 2001. Pp 371. Marshall's approach to Quebec national cinema, on the one hand, assumes that particularities exist, and, on the other hand, is self-reflexive in...