Quebecois Literature

La guerre pour la jeunesse

by Yan Hamel

Voix et Images (dossier "La guerre dans la littérature québécoise"), no 110, hiver 2012, p. 83-94.

Il était une fois... la grande nuit du conte

by Yan Hamel

Revue jeu, no 142, 2012.1, p. 158-161.

Une épopée ludique: La Marche de Râma

by Yan Hamel

Autobiojazzographie. Jazzman. Chroniques et anecdotes autour d'une passion, de Stanley Péan. Mémoire d'encrier, 192 p. Jazzman. Chroniques et anecdotes …

by Yan Hamel

Aperçus du 99 Chabanel Street. The Rent Collector de B. Glen Rotchin. Vehicule Press, 221 p. The Rent Collector de B. Glen Rotchin. Vehicule Press, 221 p

by Yan Hamel

Guerriers de café: L'Iliade

by Yan Hamel

Y a-t-il des romans québécois en anglais? L’exemple de Barney’s Version de Mordecai Richler

by Yan Hamel

Dans Quebec Studies, vol. 32, Fall 2001/Winter 2002, p. 57-68.

Yvette, Solange et Chantal. Les Quebecoises de Mordecai Richler

by Yan Hamel

Daughters of the Carnivalized Nation in Jean-Pierre Ronfard's Shakespearean Adaptations Lear and Vie et mort du Roi Boiteux

by Jennifer Drouin

Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada 27.1 (Spring 2006): 10-39.
Winner of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research's Richard Plant Award for best essay published in 2007.

F.O.L.L.E société : Déconstruction et reconstruction identitaire dans C.R.A.Z.Y.

by Loic Bourdeau

To be published in Nouvelles Etudes Francophones (CIEF) 2012

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En 2005, Jean-Marc Vallée réalise C.R.A.Z.Y, un film qui déferle sur le monde du cinéma comme un raz-de-marée et... more En 2005, Jean-Marc Vallée réalise C.R.A.Z.Y, un film qui déferle sur le monde du cinéma comme un raz-de-marée et obtient un succès mondial, grâce à un travail cinématographique de qualité et le choix d’un sujet à portée universelle, à savoir celui de la famille et de la sexualité.. Produit au Québec, le film met en scène la vie d’une famille ordinaire, les Beaulieu, avec une emphase sur le fils Zac, un héros en conflit avec son homosexualité dans une société québécoise en changement. A travers cette étude, nous allons tenter de voir comment s’opèrent la déconstruction et la reconstruction identitaires par le biais de l’Autre. Au sens générique, l’Autre peut être, géographique, sexuel ou encore religieux. Nous analyserons le thème de l’homosexualité (avec comme support le travail de Judith Butler) comme élément marginalisant qui met alors en danger l’identité. Rejeté par tous, comment trouver sa place dans une société qui n’autorise qu’une norme. Préjugés et généralisations deviennent des facteurs déconstructeurs d’une identité instable. Les thèmes que nous aborderons seront : les conflits familiaux et socioreligieux, le départ salvateur, la sexualité dérangeante, la marge, la déconstruction intérieure, l’acceptation.

Ireland, Susan and Patrice Proulx, eds. Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec

by Amy Hubbell

book review in Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literature 33.2 (Summer 2009): 391-93.

Genre Trouble in Nicole Brossard's un livre

by Amy Hubbell

Women in French Studies (2008): 116-23

Aspects of Masculinity in Pierre Perrault's ''Pour la suite du monde'' (1963)

by Sascha Scheuren

Summer 2011

This paper analyzes Pierre Perrault's 1963 movie ''Pour la suite du monde''. The main focus of my work will try to... more This paper analyzes Pierre Perrault's 1963 movie ''Pour la suite du monde''. The main focus of my work will try to answer the question: How does Perrault present masculinity and what does being a man mean for the characters presented in the movie?

Conference Announcement: “In the Wake of the Basque Whalers: Cultural and Genetic Heritage of the Basques and the Native Americans of the North Atlantic”

by Roslyn Frank

Here is the program for the upcoming International Conference called “In the Wake of the Basque Whalers: Cultural and Genetic Heritage of the Basques and the Native Americans of the North Atlantic”, featuring speakers from across several disciplines and cultures. It will take place 21-22 September 2011 in Bilbao, Spain, on the campus of the University of the Basque Country. It has been coordinated by the BIOMICs unit of UPV/EHU, University of the Basque Country Research Group and the well known film maker, photographer and investigator Xabi Otero of JAUZARREA. The unique blend of presentations in the humanities and hard sciences that characterizes this conference is a reflection of the unique broad-based interdisciplinary approach promoted by the team of geneticists at the University of the Basque Country, most particularly by Dr. Marian M. de Pancorbo, Director of the UPV/EHU BIOMICS unit, and Dr. Sergio Cardoso.

The conference summary is as follows:

“The Basques established relations with Native Americans in the St.... more The conference summary is as follows:

“The Basques established relations with Native Americans in the St. Lawrence River area over many centuries, and evidence of this appears in historical records. A wealth of historical, archaeological and even language records have been preserved as a result of these relations. One can therefore assume that the DNA lineages may also bear witness to these relations, owing to the contribution resulting from the constant trade established with the Native Americans by our whale hunters, cod fishermen and fur traders from the Lower Middle Ages and up until the 20th century.”

The list of participants includes: Dr. Marian M. de Pancorbo (UPV/EHU), Xabi Otero (JAUZARREA), Juan Antonio Urbeltz (IKERFOLK Institute), Dr. Stephen Augustine (Museum of Civilisation, Hull-Ottawa, Traditional Mi’kmaq Chief, Restigouche), Dr. Paul Charest (Laval University, Québec), Ghislain Picard (Head of the Assembly of the First Nations of Québec and Labrador), Dr. Charles A. Martin (University of Montreal), Dr. Stephen Oppenheimer (University of Oxford), Dr. Daniel G. Bradley (Trinity College, Dublin), Dr. Sergio Cardoso (UPV/EHU), Jon Maia and Amets Arzallus, Dr. Roldán Jimeno Aranguren (Public University of Navarre), Dr. Jacques Lacoursière (Laval University, Québec), Dr. Miren Egaña Goya (Aranzadi Scientific Society, Donostia), Dr. Brad Loewen (University of Montreal), Dr. Peter Bakker (University of Aarhus, Denmark), Dr. Robert Grenier (Parks Canada, UNESCO), Xabier Agote (ALBAOLA Association, Pasaia), Dr. Aurélie Arcocha-Scarcia (Université Michel de Montaigen-Bordeaux3, Centre de Recherche sur la Langue et les Textes).

Entre textes et images: constructions identitaires en Acadie et au Québec

by Kirsty Bell

Comment raconter une histoire simple autrement

by Pierre-Luc Landry

Published on "Salon double, observatoire de la littérature contemporaine"

This is a report on the novel "Bébé et bien d'autres qui s'évadent" by Québec writer Gaétan Leboeuf. I... more This is a report on the novel "Bébé et bien d'autres qui s'évadent" by Québec writer Gaétan Leboeuf. I briefly consider the novel to be influenced by a certain form of magical realism.

L'abandon du Grand Récit: réflexion sur la révision de l'identité québécoise dans le dernier tome du roman Les Filles de Caleb

by Benjamin Lefebvre

Le présent article retrace les changements abordés dans le dernier volet du roman Les Filles de Caleb d’Arlette... more Le présent article retrace les changements abordés dans le dernier volet du roman Les Filles de Caleb d’Arlette Cousture, un récit que plusieurs lecteurs/lectrices et téléspectateurs/téléspectatrices ont reçu comme une tranche de leur Histoire nationale québécoise commune. En se penchant sur le statut de la femme, l’effondrement du pouvoir de l’Église catholique, la redéfinition du cadre familial et l’élargissement des possibilités identitaires au Québec dans les années frôlant la Révolution tranquille, l’article met en relief la révision au «Grand Récit» que ce dernier volet, L’abandon de la mésange (2003), offre à son lectorat francophone.

‘Vivre l’hiver': Living Winter, Living in Winter

by Jérôme Melançon

Paper given at the Nordicity in Thought and Practice Conference, Camrose (AB), October 12, 2010.

CFP: 2011 M/MLA Panel: No, I'm not American/Je ne suis pas français: Canadian Writers Playing with Identity

by Lee Skallerup Bessette

This is a Call for Papers for the Canadian Literature panel at the M/MLA conference taking place in St. Louis this November.

Canadian witers in both French and English have historically been defined by who they are not: British, French,... more Canadian witers in both French and English have historically been defined by who they are not: British, French, American. This uncertain and unstable national identity has now been embraced by many writers and is expressed in a great deal of playfulness in their writing. With works like Souvenirs from Canada by Douglas Coupland, Est-ce que cette grenade dans la main du Nègre est-il une arme ou un fruit? by Dany Laferrière, or Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King, Canadian writers have posed a critical eye on Canadian and American cultural and aesthetic norms. This panel invites papers that discuss how Canadian writers have played with the idea of being Canadian (in the broadest possible sense) in opposition to how others attempt to label them.

This year's theme of the M/MLA is "Play...No, Seriously" and is being held in St. Louis from November 3-6, 2011. For more information on the conference and membership in the M/MLA, visit http://luc.edu/mmla/annualconvention.html or visit the CFP at http://luc.edu/mmla/callforpapers.html#ps

The abstract should be 250 words and be submitted to the Chair, Lee Skallerup Bessette (lee.bessette@gmail.com) before June 15, 2011. Any questions can also be directed to the chair. We are particularly interested in papers dealing with literature from Canada written in French.

CFP: Dany Laferrière: Essays on His Work

by Lee Skallerup Bessette

This is a call for papers for a forthcoming book I am editing.

Guernica Editions is planning to publish a collection of essays on Dany Laferrière as part of their “Writers Series”... more Guernica Editions is planning to publish a collection of essays on Dany Laferrière as part of their “Writers Series” in early 2013. Editor Lee Skallerup Bessette is looking for submissions for the collection, focusing on any aspect of Laferrière’s oeuvre, including movie adaptations, his children’s books, his newspaper writing, etc. The essays should be between 5000-7000 words and follow current MLA conventions for formatting and citations. Please ensure footnotes are inserted manually instead of using the word processors footnote capabilities. Essays should be submitted in English, but quotes within the essay can be in French. Essays written entirely in French will be considered, but will need to be translated.

Please submit your completed essay before September 30, 2011 to lee.bessette@gmail.com.  If you are submitting an essay in French, the deadline is July 31, 2011, to allow for translation.