Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

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This is the first comprehensive study in English of the post-war literature of immigration in Quebec. It examines the literary representation of immigration as it relates to those who have moved to Quebec from such areas as the Caribbean, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. Through this focus on immigration, the essays raise a series of questions related to gender, cultural pluralism, identity politics, and narrative forms. One of the key objectives is to consider the ways in which the literary texts portray the concept of immigrant culture and shape debates about Quebec's national and cultural identity. The book explores how these texts re-imagine and redefine problematic issues related to the immigrant experience.Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec by Patrice J. Proulx and Susan Ireland is a cross-disciplinary work that will be of interest to scholars of French and francophone literature, cultural studies, the history of immigration, Canadian studies, and the literature of exile. The essays in this volume examine the ways in which the appearance of this contemporary corpus has led to a modification of critical categories, as scholars have sought ways to conceptualize this new body of literature.

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Utgivningsdatum:2004-04-30
Mått:156 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt:510 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Contributions to the Study of World Literature
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780313324253

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SUSAN IRELAND is Professor of French at Grinnell College.PATRICE J. PROULX is Professor of French and Women's Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Susan Ireland and Patrice J. ProulxOverviewTranscultural Identities: Many Ways of Being Qu'bEÉcois by Mary Jean GreenNarratives of Return by Susan IrelandCinemaThe Intimate Other: Representations of Cultural Diversity in Quebec Film and Video (1895-1995) by Sherry SimonTheaterImmigrant Theater: Traumatic Departures and Unsettling Arrivals by Jane MossImages of Alterity in Contemporary Quebec Theater by Jane KoustasThe Novel and the Short StoryTextualizing the Experience of Italian Women Immigrants by Susan IrelandIraquébec: Naïm Kattan's Trans-Mimetic Diaspora by Michael GreensteinMigration and Memory in Marie-Célie Agnant's la dot de Sara and Alba Farhoud's Le bonheur a la queue glissante by Patrice J. ProulxBach Mai and Ying Chen: Immigrant Identies in Quebec by Jack YeagerJudeo-Moroccan Memory in Quebec by Lucette Heller-GoldenbergImmigration from a Québécois Perspective: Francine Noël's Babel, prise deux ou Nous avons tous découvert l'Amérique and Monique Proulx's Les aurores montréales by Valérie RaoulImmigritude: Emile Ollivier and Gérard Etienne by Keith WalkerDislocated Subjects, Disjointed Fictions: Régine Robin's Monique Bosco's "Biofictiions" by Catherine KhordocPoetryUprooting and Uprootedness: Haitian Poetry in Quebec(1960-2002) by Vincent DesrochesThe Sorrows of Exile: The Role of Mourning in Nadine Ltaïf's Poetry by Marie CarrièreItalo-Québécois Poets and Essayists: A Unique Trajectory by Simon HarelSelected BibliographyIndexAbout the Contributors