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Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec
Susan Ireland, Patrice J. Proulx
Book Code: GM2425
ISBN: 0-313-32425-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32425-3
272 pages, n/a
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 4/30/2004
List Price: $71.95 (UK Sterling Price: £41.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions to the Study of World Literature
Series Number: 127
Reviews:
  • The 16 coordinated and well-edited essays in this volume provide a richly detailed overview of the contributions of immigrant writers to Quebecois literature since the so-called Quiet Revolution of the 1960s....Generous bibliographies--at the end of each article and the end of the book--and an index of proper names and themes enhance the usefulness of this collection for those seeking an overview of the ways immigrant voices have broadened, enriched, and enlivened the Quebec literary scene. Recommended. Large collections supporting study of francophone literature; upper-division undergraduates and above.
    —Choice     January 2005
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
LC Card Number: 2003062258
LCC Class: PQ3917
Dewey Class: 840
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