Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec

Herausgeber: Ireland, Susan; Proulx, Patrice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 575g
• ISBN-13: 9780313324253
• ISBN-10: 0313324255
• Artikelnr.: 22109614

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction by Susan Ireland and Patrice J. Proulx
Overview Transcultural Identities: Many Ways of Being Qu'bEÉcois 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 Iraquébec: Naïm
Kattan's Trans-Mimetic Diaspora by Michael Greenstein Migration and Memory
in Marie-Célie 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 Québécois Perspective:
Francine Noël's Babel, prise deux ou Nous avons tous découvert l'Amérique
and Monique Proulx's Les aurores montréales by Valérie Raoul Immigritude:
Emile Ollivier and Gérard Etienne by Keith Walker Dislocated Subjects,
Disjointed Fictions: Régine 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 Ltaïf's Poetry by Marie Carrière Italo-Québécois Poets
and Essayists: A Unique Trajectory by Simon Harel Selected Bibliography
Index About the Contributors