The Eye of the Master

Reviews / Votes

"For all the scholarship it contains, this book does not feel academic. I am convinced that Dalie Giroux's slow, organic engagement with her source materials and manner of embodying scholarly thought in lived experience is more important today than ever before, as we grapple to understand what constitutes human intelligence, ... . The Eye of the Master is an exhilarating read that gives no east answers, just hard questions. That's a good start." Montreal Review of Books "At times empathetic, at times furious, L'oeil du maitre is further proof of the incendiary power of Dalie Giroux's prose [...]. Giroux writes in a bold first-person voice, plunging into family archives, alternating between an academic style and one that is more free, lyrical, incendiary, even punk." Le Devoir [from a review of the French edition] "In L'oeil du maitre, Dalie Giroux questions the slogan "masters in our own house," our sovereigntist struggles, and all the missed opportunities for solidarity with First Nations. Over the course of time, what the Quebecois have proposed to Indigenous peoples in relation to their emancipation project has amounted to no more than the replacement of anglophone masters with francophone ones, as opposed the abandonment of the colonial project at the origin of Canada. [...] [T]he project of independence can only survive, if it can be thought differently, repoliticized, and prevented from channeling oppressions." La Presse [from a review of the French edition] "This translation of Giroux's important essay L'oeil du maitre (2020) is essential reading for colleagues interested in developing a decolonial perspective on Quebecois nation-building discourses and practices, as well as for settlers attempting to face the various stories we inherit and to leave better ones for future generations." Quebec Studies