Quebec Studies articles from September 2007

Quebec Studies archives from September 2007

Conflict in contiguity: an update.(Report)
September 22, 2007... As the recent dossiers in Voix et images and Spirale, and the colloquia at ACFAS (2) attest, anglo-Quebec literature is increasingly a site of research for francophone scholars (3) in the field of Quebec Studies. Scholarly interest in...

Dislocations affectives de la litterature anglo-quebecoise.
September 22, 2007... Aux rares voix qui commencent a s'insurger, a l'instar de celle d'un Simon Harel, (1) contre l'euphorie et la consensualite "soporifiques" (Harel 2006, 9) des discours identitaires et culturels actuels au Quebec, le present dossier sur les...

Les loyautes conflictuelles de la litterature quebecoise.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... Zones de tension Quelles sont les formes d'un postcolonialisme interne qui habite les territoires de la litterature quebecoise, les concepts que nous devons mettre en oeuvre pour mieux comprendre ce dernier dans le cadre d'une reflexion...

Blue Metropolis and the evolution of Quebec literature.(Report)
September 22, 2007... The Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival, which is unique in the world in its use of language, could probably never have emerged elsewhere than in Montreal. Those of us involved in the creation of Blue Metropolis--all...

Despair as oppositional practice: writing the minority within Quebec's English minority.
September 22, 2007... Writing in Canada, not to mention Quebec, is in crisis. And not only from a commercial point of view. In spite of, and in some ways because of longstanding if minimal government support and a period of commercial and critical success extending,...

Detournements amoureux: lire en anglais au Quebec.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... Le plurilinguisme litteraire et la surconscience linguistique Les chemins qui m'ont menee vers le corpus litteraire anglo-quebecois--un corpus qui m'accompagne depuis pres de dix ans deja--tiennent d'abord au fait que des textes appartenant a...

Lettres anglo-provinciales.(Personal account)
September 22, 2007... Anglo-Quebecoise de par ma naissance et de par mon ascendance, etudiante puis professeure de litterature franco-quebecoise, jusqu'a tout recemment je n'ai jamais cherche--je n'ai jamais songe a chercher--dans la litterature quebecoise...

Mrs. Beckett's old steamer trunk.
September 22, 2007... My home is the city state of Montreal, but a writer is a traveler. Like most, I keep moving, geographically, virtually, artistically; the question of de/localisation or displacement as an anglo-quebecoise writer was a subject of passionate...

Postface.(Report)
September 22, 2007... When, as Editor of Quebec Studies in 1999, I eagerly agreed to publish "Ecrire en anglais au Quebec: un devenir minoritaire?," I was confident of its groundbreaking contribution to Quebec literary criticism. In the intervening decade, two...

Wallot, Jean-Pierre. Le debat qui n'a pas eu lieu: La Commission Pepin-Robarts, quelques vingt ans apres.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... WALLOT, JEAN-PIERRE. Le debat qui n'a pas eu lieu: La Commission Pepin-Robarts, quelques vingt ans apres. (Collection Amerique Francaise) Ottawa: PU d'Ottawa, 2002. Pp.148. ISBN 2-7603-0550-3. Le debat qui n'a pas eu lieu examines an...

Marshall, Dominique. The Social Origins of the Welfare State: Quebec Families, Compulsory Education, and Family Allowances, 1940-1955.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... MARSHALL, DOMINIQUE. The Social Origins of the Welfare State: Quebec Families, Compulsory Education, and Family Allowances, 1940-1955, translated by Nicola Doone Danby. (Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada Series, No. 10) Waterloo, Ont.:...

Behiels, Michael D. La francophonie canadienne: Renouveau constitutionnel et gouvernance scolaire.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... BEHIELS, MICHAEL D. La francophonie canadienne: Renouveau constitutionnel et gouvernance scolaire. (Collection Amerique Francaise.) Ottawa: PU d'Ottawa, 2005. Pp. 432. ISBN 2-7603-0600-3. Michael Behiels is Professor of History at the...

Chovrelat, Genevieve. Louis Hemon, la vie a ecrire.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... CHOVRELAT, GENEVIEVE. Louis Hemon, la vie a ecrire. Leuven: Peeters, 2003. Pp. 326. ISBN 90-429-1240-5. Although the generation of the Quiet Revolution rejected Maria Chapdelaine for its portrait of female resignation and of a Quebec...

Hayward, Annette. La querelle du regionalisme au Quebec (1904-1931): Vers l'autonomisation de la litterature quebecoise.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... HAYWARD, ANNETTE. La querelle du regionalisme au Quebec (1904-1931): Vers l'autonomisation de la litterature quebecoise. Ottawa: Le Nordir, 2006. Pp. 587. ISBN-13: 978-2-89531-049-5. Montreal en 1904 est un lieu, une date, et un moment...

Ferraro, Alessandra et Anna Pia De Luca. Parcours migrants au Quebec: L'italianite de Marco Micone a Philippe Poloni.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... FERRARO, ALESSANDRA et ANNA PIA DE LUCA. Parcours migrants au Quebec: L'italianite de Marco Micone a Philippe Poloni. Udine: Forum, 2006. Pp. 115. ISBN 88-8420-316-3. This collection of articles is composed of a series of papers given at...

Forsyth, Louise H., editor. Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation, Volume I (1966-1986).(Book review)
September 22, 2007... FORSYTH, LOUISE H., editor. Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation, Volume I (1966-1986). Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2006. Pp. 570. ISBN-10: 0887548687; ISBN-13: 978-0887548680. Finally there is a collection of...