Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec
Published on 30. April 2004
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-313-32425-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
573 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-313-32425-3 (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.
PATRICE J. PROULX is Professor of French and Women's Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Susan Ireland and Patrice J. Proulx
Overview
Transcultural Identities: Many Ways of Being Qu'bEEcois by Mary Jean Green
Narratives of Return by Susan Ireland
Cinema
The Intimate Other: Representations of Cultural Diversity in Quebec Film and Video (1895-1995) by Sherry Simon
Theater
Immigrant Theater: Traumatic Departures and Unsettling Arrivals by Jane Moss
Images of Alterity in Contemporary Quebec Theater by Jane Koustas
The Novel and the Short Story
Textualizing the Experience of Italian Women Immigrants by Susan Ireland
Iraquebec: Naim Kattan's Trans-Mimetic Diaspora by Michael Greenstein
Migration and Memory in Marie-Celie Agnant's la dot de Sara and Alba Farhoud's Le bonheur a la queue glissante by Patrice J. Proulx
Bach Mai and Ying Chen: Immigrant Identies in Quebec by Jack Yeager
Judeo-Moroccan Memory in Quebec by Lucette Heller-Goldenberg
Immigration from a Quebecois Perspective: Francine Noel's Babel, prise deux ou Nous avons tous decouvert l'Amerique and Monique Proulx's Les aurores montreales by Valerie Raoul
Immigritude: Emile Ollivier and Gerard Etienne by Keith Walker
Dislocated Subjects, Disjointed Fictions: Regine Robin's Monique Bosco's "Biofictiions" by Catherine Khordoc
Poetry
Uprooting and Uprootedness: Haitian Poetry in Quebec(1960-2002) by Vincent Desroches
The Sorrows of Exile: The Role of Mourning in Nadine Ltaif's Poetry by Marie Carriere
Italo-Quebecois Poets and Essayists: A Unique Trajectory by Simon Harel
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
Introduction by Susan Ireland and Patrice J. Proulx
Overview
Transcultural Identities: Many Ways of Being Qu'bEEcois by Mary Jean Green
Narratives of Return by Susan Ireland
Cinema
The Intimate Other: Representations of Cultural Diversity in Quebec Film and Video (1895-1995) by Sherry Simon
Theater
Immigrant Theater: Traumatic Departures and Unsettling Arrivals by Jane Moss
Images of Alterity in Contemporary Quebec Theater by Jane Koustas
The Novel and the Short Story
Textualizing the Experience of Italian Women Immigrants by Susan Ireland
Iraquebec: Naim Kattan's Trans-Mimetic Diaspora by Michael Greenstein
Migration and Memory in Marie-Celie Agnant's la dot de Sara and Alba Farhoud's Le bonheur a la queue glissante by Patrice J. Proulx
Bach Mai and Ying Chen: Immigrant Identies in Quebec by Jack Yeager
Judeo-Moroccan Memory in Quebec by Lucette Heller-Goldenberg
Immigration from a Quebecois Perspective: Francine Noel's Babel, prise deux ou Nous avons tous decouvert l'Amerique and Monique Proulx's Les aurores montreales by Valerie Raoul
Immigritude: Emile Ollivier and Gerard Etienne by Keith Walker
Dislocated Subjects, Disjointed Fictions: Regine Robin's Monique Bosco's "Biofictiions" by Catherine Khordoc
Poetry
Uprooting and Uprootedness: Haitian Poetry in Quebec(1960-2002) by Vincent Desroches
The Sorrows of Exile: The Role of Mourning in Nadine Ltaif's Poetry by Marie Carriere
Italo-Quebecois Poets and Essayists: A Unique Trajectory by Simon Harel
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors