Quebec Studies articles from September 2002

Quebec Studies archives from September 2002

Editor's note.(Editorial)
September 22, 2002... In this issue, we begin what we hope will be a series of re-assessments of the Quiet Revolution, its origins and impact on Quebec life. Historiography has become one of the liveliest areas of Quebec scholarship in recent years. While...

Caught in the blind spot: organized labor in revisionist explanations of the quiet revolution.(Quebec)
September 22, 2002... Introduction The Quiet Revolution, in the words of Rene Levesque, was "a period when the people of Quebec set their clocks to the time of the twentieth century... [B]etween 1960 and 1964 Quebec lived through the most exalting and fruitful...

The impact of the quiet revolution: the business environment of smaller cities and regions of Quebec 1960-2000.
September 22, 2002... The Province of Quebec has changed significantly in the economic, social, and political areas since the advent of the Quiet Revolution. This paper is an analysis of the fundamental changes that have occurred in the Quebec business environment...

Narrative, memory, and identity in Francois-Xavier Garneau's Histoire du Canada.
September 22, 2002... D'Alembert.--Docteur, encore un mot, et je vous envoie h votre patient. A travers toutes les vicissitudes que je subis dans le cours de ma duree, n'ayant peut-etre pas a present une des molecules que j'apportai en naissant, comment suis-je...

Choquette's urban fables: questioning a certain modernity.(Robert Choquette)(fabulist)
September 22, 2002... While the fable has undergone various metamorphoses in its long history, it has retained the abiding characteristic of teaching truths about human behavior while purporting to tell stories about animals and plants, or sometimes about people...

La quete de pouvoir avortee dans La Guerre, yes, sir!
September 22, 2002... Les quelques oeuvres canadiennes-francaises traitant de guerre ne peuvent se lire qu'en relation avec le contexte socio-culturel qui les a produites. (1) Mais qu'arrive-t-il quand, plusieurs decennies apres, un auteur qui n'a pas vecu la guerre...

La dramaturgie autobiographique de Michel Tremblay: Encore une fois, si vous permettez.
September 22, 2002... Et mon mentor, c'est ma mere. Elle m'a tout donne: mon sens critique, mon cote comique et melodramatique, mon penchant pour l'exageration... Avant que je ne devienne dramaturge, ma mere m'a donc transmis l'essence de la theatralite. Mais...

Gagne, Gilles, and Simon Langlois. Les raisons fortes: nature et signification de l'appui a la souverainete du Quebec.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... GAGNE, GILLES, and SIMON LANGLOIS. Les raisons fortes: Nature et signification de l'appui a la souverainete du Quebec. Montreal: Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 2002. Pp. 187. In this brief, well-argued essay, Gilles Gagne and...

Gordon, Alan. Making Public Pasts: the Contested Terrain of Montreal's Public Memories, 1891-1930.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... GORDON, ALAN. Making Public Pasts: The Contested Terrain of Montreal's Public Memories, 1891-1930. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. Pp. xxxiv + 238. In this fascinating book, Alan Gordon explores the ways the French- and...

Talbot, Emile J. Reading Nelligan.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... TALBOT, EMILE J. Reading Nelligan. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. Pp. 221. Professor Talbot's long awaited new work on Nelligan is nothing less than a landmark: it represents the first important book-length study of the...

Cote, Nicole, and Peter Sabor, eds. Varieties of Exile: New Essays on Mavis Gallant.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... COTE, NICOLE, and PETER SABOR, eds. Varieties of Exile: New Essays on Mavis Gallant. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. Pp. 126. This stimulating volume grew out of a conference on Mavis Gallant held at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris. The...

Hotte, Lucie. Romans de la lecture, lecture du roman: l'inscription de la lecture.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... HOTTE, LUCIE. Romans de la lecture, lecture du roman: l'inscription de la lecture. (Collection Litterature(s)). Quebec: Editions Nota bene, 2001. Pp. 183. Si la critique, a partir de l'epoque romantique, s'est d'abord penchee sur...

Caught in the blind spot: organized labour in revisionist explanations of the Quiet Revolution.
September 22, 2002... The Quiet Revolution, in the words of Rene Levesque, was "a period when the people of Quebec set their docks to the time of the twentieth century... [B]etween 1960 and 1964 Quebec lived through the most exalting and fruitful aggiornamento"...

Impact of hte Quiet Revolution: the business environment of smaller cities and regions of Quebec 1960-2000.
September 22, 2002... The Province of Quebec has changed significantly in the economic, social, and political areas since the advent of the Quiet Revolution. This paper is an analysis of the fundamental changes that have occurred in the Quebec business environment...

Narrative, memory and identity in Francois-Xavier Garneau's Histoire du Canada).
September 22, 2002... D'Alembert.--Docteur, encore un mot, et je vous envoie a votre patient. A travers toutes les vicissitudes que je subis dans le cours de ma duree, n'ayant peut-etre pas a present une des molecules que j'apportai en naissant, comment suis-je...

Choquette's urban fables: questioning a certain modernity.
September 22, 2002... While the fable has undergone various metamorphoses in its long history, it has retained the abiding characteristic of teaching truths about human behavior while purporting to tell stories about animals and plants, or sometimes about people...

Quete de pouvior avortee dans La Guerre, yes sir!
September 22, 2002... Les quelques oeuvres canadiennes-francaises traitant de guerre ne peuvent se lire qu'en relation avec le contexte socio-culturel qui les a produites.(1) Mais qu'arrive-t-il quand, plusieurs decennies apres, un auteur qui n'a pas vecu la guerre...

Dramaturgie autobiographie de Michel Tremblay: Encore une fois, si vous permettez.
September 22, 2002... Et mon mentor, c'est ma mere. Elle m'a tout donne: mon sens critique, mon cote comique et melodramatique, mon penchant pour l'exageration... Avant que je ne devienne dramaturge, ma mere m'a donc transmis l'essence de la theatralite. Mais...

Raisons fortes: nature et signigication de l'appui a la souverainete du Quebec.
September 22, 2002... GAGNE GILLES, and SIMON LANGLOIS. Les raisons fortes: Nature et signification de l'appui a la souverainete du Quebec. Montreal: Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 2002. Pp. 187. In this brief, well-argued essay, Gilles Gagne and Simon...

Making public pasts: the contested terrain of Montreal's Public Memories, 1891-1930.
September 22, 2002... GORDON, ALAN. Making Public Pasts: The Contested Terrain of Montreal's Public Memories, 1891-1930. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. Pp. xxxiv + 238. In this fascinating book, Alan Gordon explores the ways the French- and...

Reading Nelligan.
September 22, 2002... TALBOT, EMILE J. Reading Nelligan. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. Pp. 221. Professor Talbot's long awaited new work on Nelligan is nothing less than a landmark: it represents the first important book-length study of the...

Varities of exile: new essays on Mavis Gallant.
September 22, 2002... COTE, NICOLE, and PETER SABOR, eds. Varieties of Exile: New Essays on Mavis Gallant. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. Pp. 126. This stimulating volume grew out of a conference on Mavis Gallant held at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris. The...

Romans de la lecture, lecture du roman: l'inscription de la lecture.
September 22, 2002... HOTTE, LUCIE. Romans de la lecture, lecture du roman: l'inscription de la lecture. (Collection Litterature(s)). Quebec: Editions Nota bene, 2001. Pp.183. Si la critique, a partir de l'epoque romantique, s'est d'abord penchee sur "l'auteur,...

Index of Quebec Studies volumes 22-33.
September 22, 2002... Index of Articles Articles by Name of Author(s) Articles by Subject Arts Film Music Painting Performing Arts Popular Culture Television...