Quebec Studies articles from September 2003

Quebec Studies archives from September 2003

Editor's note.
September 22, 2003... Terrorist attacks, the globalization of trade, and new waves of large-scale immigration (legal and illegal) into North America and the European Union and elsewhere have made us aware in different ways of just how porous national borders have...

The oldest and most resistant section of the border (1).
September 22, 2003... Why is there a border between Canada and the United States? First and foremost because Canadian settlers refused to join the American Revolution. They thus allowed Great Britain to keep a piece of her North American Empire and give rise to a...

Cultural sovereignty, identity, and North American integration: on the relevance of the U.S.-Canada-Quebec border (1).
September 22, 2003... Present means of communication, new and emerging technologies and, more generally, the specifics of cultural goods and services confer on the Canada-U.S. border a virtual character to a great extent. Such technological developments, in addition...

Au nom du fils: la Riviere-a-Mars de Damase Potvin.
September 22, 2003... A Patrick, pour la rigolade Cet article s'inscrit dans le cadre d'une recherche (1) sur la representation de la figure du Pere dans le roman quebecois. Le premier objectif est de montrer comment le recit romanesque est subordonne a...

When they were young: adolescent representations in Les Fous de Bassan.
September 22, 2003... Les Fous de Bassan was published in 1982 and won Anne Hebert the Prix Femina, previously awarded to Gabrielle Roy for her novel Bonheur d'occasion. Hebert's novel is about the lives of five people who recount their version of two murders in...

Rewriting Les Lettres chinoises: the poetics of erasure.
September 22, 2003... In 1998, Editions Lemeac (in a co-publication with Actes Sud) reissued Ying Chen's highly regarded Les Lettres chinoises, which it had originally published in 1993. This reissue, which carries the same copyright date as the original (though...

D'une parole fraternelle a l'affirmation de "l'homme d'ici" (1): lectures de la poesie a l'Hexagone entre 1953 et 1959 *.
September 22, 2003... On a souligne en 2003 le cinquantieme anniversaire des Editions de l'Hexagone. Reconnue pendant plusieurs decennies comme "le haut-lieu [sic] de la poesie au Quebec," (2) l'Hexagone a ete une maison artisanale parmi d'autres, sans autre visee...

Un nouvel art du voyage: le fantastique quebecois.
September 22, 2003... Aller d'une planete a une autre, c'est comme d'aller d'ici a la grange d'en face. (Borges 108) Les recits fantastiques du Quebec relatent la progression chaotique de personnages egares dans un monde depourvu de panneaux indicateurs: des...

The Quebec quiet revolution: a noisy evolution.
September 22, 2003... Within the last three decades historians, social scientists, and observers of Quebec have been debating the advent of modernity in Quebec society and the significance of the Quiet Revolution in this process. The question is, as Paul-Andre...