Author: Rosemary Chapman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1846319730
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
The question 'What is Québécois literature?' might seem innocent and easily answerable. But as Rosemary Chapman shows in this compelling study, answering that question requires no less than the charting of the entire cultural history of French Canada, the contextualizing of francophone writing in Canada within postcolonialism, and the challenging of literary history to rethink its nation-based framework. Brilliantly navigating these ambitions, she provides the first major literary history of Québec, what will be compulsory reading for scholars in francophone postcolonial studies and an ideal introduction for anglophone scholars of Canadian literature.
Kamouraska
Author: Anne Hébert
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 1770892680
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A classic of Canadian literature by the great Quebecoise writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Quebec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnieres: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love. Translated into seven languages, Kamouraska won the Paris book prize and was made into a landmark feature film by Claude Jutra. This edition features a brilliant new introduction by Noah Richler.
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 1770892680
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A classic of Canadian literature by the great Quebecoise writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Quebec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnieres: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love. Translated into seven languages, Kamouraska won the Paris book prize and was made into a landmark feature film by Claude Jutra. This edition features a brilliant new introduction by Noah Richler.
The Quebec Connection
Author: Julie-Françoise Tolliver
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813944902
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
From the 1950s to the 1970s, the idea of independence inspired radical changes across the French-speaking world. In The Quebec Connection, Julie-Françoise Tolliver examines the links and parallels that writers from Quebec, the Caribbean, and Africa imagined to unite that world, illuminating the tropes they used to articulate solidarities across the race and class differences that marked their experience. Tolliver argues that the French tongue both enabled and delimited connections between these writers, restricting their potential with the language’s own imperial history. The literary map that emerges demonstrates the plurality of French-language literatures, going beyond the concept of a single, unitary francophone literature to appreciate the profuse range of imaginaries connected by solidary texts that hoped for transformative independence. Importantly, the book expands the "francophone" framework by connecting African and Caribbean literatures to Québécois literature, attending to their interactions while recognizing their particularities. The Quebec Connection’s analysis of transnational francophone solidarities radically alters the field of francophone studies by redressing the racial logic that isolates the northern province from what has come to be called the postcolonial world.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813944902
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
From the 1950s to the 1970s, the idea of independence inspired radical changes across the French-speaking world. In The Quebec Connection, Julie-Françoise Tolliver examines the links and parallels that writers from Quebec, the Caribbean, and Africa imagined to unite that world, illuminating the tropes they used to articulate solidarities across the race and class differences that marked their experience. Tolliver argues that the French tongue both enabled and delimited connections between these writers, restricting their potential with the language’s own imperial history. The literary map that emerges demonstrates the plurality of French-language literatures, going beyond the concept of a single, unitary francophone literature to appreciate the profuse range of imaginaries connected by solidary texts that hoped for transformative independence. Importantly, the book expands the "francophone" framework by connecting African and Caribbean literatures to Québécois literature, attending to their interactions while recognizing their particularities. The Quebec Connection’s analysis of transnational francophone solidarities radically alters the field of francophone studies by redressing the racial logic that isolates the northern province from what has come to be called the postcolonial world.
What is Québécois Literature?
Author: Rosemary Chapman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1846319730
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
The question 'What is Québécois literature?' might seem innocent and easily answerable. But as Rosemary Chapman shows in this compelling study, answering that question requires no less than the charting of the entire cultural history of French Canada, the contextualizing of francophone writing in Canada within postcolonialism, and the challenging of literary history to rethink its nation-based framework. Brilliantly navigating these ambitions, she provides the first major literary history of Québec, what will be compulsory reading for scholars in francophone postcolonial studies and an ideal introduction for anglophone scholars of Canadian literature.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1846319730
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
The question 'What is Québécois literature?' might seem innocent and easily answerable. But as Rosemary Chapman shows in this compelling study, answering that question requires no less than the charting of the entire cultural history of French Canada, the contextualizing of francophone writing in Canada within postcolonialism, and the challenging of literary history to rethink its nation-based framework. Brilliantly navigating these ambitions, she provides the first major literary history of Québec, what will be compulsory reading for scholars in francophone postcolonial studies and an ideal introduction for anglophone scholars of Canadian literature.
Atavisms
Author: Raymond Bock
Publisher: Canadian Literature
ISBN: 9781564784292
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Atavisms is an original and unsettling portrait of Quebec, from the hinterland to the metropolis, from colonial times to the present, and beyond. These thirteen stories, though not linked in the traditional sense, abound in common threads. Like family traits passed down through the generations, the attitudes and actions of a rich cast of characters reverberate, quietly but deeply, over generations. Here is a group portrait of the individual lives that together shape a collective history. Atavaisms has been shortlisted for the 2014 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature.
Publisher: Canadian Literature
ISBN: 9781564784292
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Atavisms is an original and unsettling portrait of Quebec, from the hinterland to the metropolis, from colonial times to the present, and beyond. These thirteen stories, though not linked in the traditional sense, abound in common threads. Like family traits passed down through the generations, the attitudes and actions of a rich cast of characters reverberate, quietly but deeply, over generations. Here is a group portrait of the individual lives that together shape a collective history. Atavaisms has been shortlisted for the 2014 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature.
Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!
Author: Mordecai Richler
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Humorous account of Quebec's language obsessed separatist movement.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Humorous account of Quebec's language obsessed separatist movement.
Transactions of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec
Author: Literary and Historical Society of Quebec
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Québec (Province)
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Québec (Province)
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Contemporary French Cultures and Societies
Author: Frédéric Royall
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039100743
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
An interdisciplinary collection of writings on various aspects of change in contemporary French-speaking society, spanning the broad fields of politics and society, arts and culture, the French language, and francophone literatures.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039100743
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
An interdisciplinary collection of writings on various aspects of change in contemporary French-speaking society, spanning the broad fields of politics and society, arts and culture, the French language, and francophone literatures.
The Centenary Volume of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 1824-1924
Author: Literary and Historical Society of Quebec
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Transactions of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec
Women and Narrative Identity
Author: Mary Jean Matthews Green
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773522077
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A feminist re-reading of the Quebec literary tradition, from Laure Conan and Gabrielle Roy to contemporary figures such as France Théoret and Régine Robin.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773522077
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A feminist re-reading of the Quebec literary tradition, from Laure Conan and Gabrielle Roy to contemporary figures such as France Théoret and Régine Robin.