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Onzième roman de l'auteure. Un hommage aux pionniers de la baie James, et l'histoire de l'Hydro-Québec. Une série d'aventures à travers trois générations de Delisle. Selon G. Lamon, il s'agit d'une "saga sur l'histoire politico-économique du Québec dans laquelle l'électricité a joué un rôle de premier plan pour les Québécois". La critique est plus que partagée : déchirée. Pour Ethier-Blais, la romancière a atteint "Un sommet de son art". Quant à Boivin il a trouvé le roman long, son style lourd et "appliqué comme du béton armé".

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Distinctly Narcissistic is a study of diary fiction written in Quebec between 1878 and 1990. Valerie Raoul explores the social and ideological context in which diary fiction occurs, and the relation in Quebec, between the diary form and (de)colonization. Many of the works she considers have received little critical attention until now. Raoul bases her study on a psychoanalytic theory of narcissism. Building on the structure developed in her earlier book, The French Fictional Journal (1980), she analyses the interaction of self, time, and writing in diary fiction, extending her approach to take into account the cultural context of the works concerned. The theory of narcissism serves as a framework for the treatment of topics as varied as feminine superiority in Laure Conan’s early work, cerebral misogyny in narratives by men, ambivalent gender identities, and the recurring metaphor of giving birth to the self through the book. In re-examining parallels between individual and collective psychology as well as between gender and ethnicity, Raoul provides new insight into the specificity of Quebec fiction and the relation of fiction to autobiography.

French-Canadian fiction --- History and criticism. --- Quebec.

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A fresh approach to Montreal fiction, integrating French and English novels into a common literary history.

French-Canadian fiction --- Canadian fiction (French) --- French-Canadian literature

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This original contribution to hemispheric American literary studies comprises readings of three important novels from Mexico, Canada, and the United States: Carlos Fuentes's Terra Nostra, Quebecois writer Jacques Poulin's Volkswagen Blues, and Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead.

French-Canadian fiction --- Mexican fiction --- American fiction --- History and criticism. --- America --- In literature.

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Santoro elucidates notoriously difficult works by the four "mothers of invention" studied - Cixous and Hyvrard from France, and Gagnon and Brossard from Quebec - showing how the rethinking of images associated with femininity and motherhood, a disruptive approach to language, and a subversive relation to novelistic conventions characterize these writers' search for a writing that will best express women's desires and dreams. Mothers of Invention situates such ideologically motivated textual practices within the avant-garde tradition, even as it suggests how women's experimental writings collectively transform our understanding of that tradition. Santoro makes clear the shared ethical and aesthetic commitments that nourished a transatlantic community whose contribution to mainstream literature and cultural productions, including postmodernism, is still being felt today.

Feminist fiction, French --- Experimental fiction, French --- French fiction --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- French-Canadian fiction --- Experimental fiction, French-Canadian --- Invention (Rhetoric) --- Feminist fiction --- History