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Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec
Susan Ireland, Patrice J. Proulx, ed.
ISBN: 0-313-32425-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32425-3
272 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 4/30/2004
List Price: $71.95 (UK Sterling Price: £49.95)
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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.
Table of Contents:
  • 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
About the Author: 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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