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Cet article tente d'éclairer la situation contemporaine du Québec en matière d'immigration par un rappel historique de l'évolution des quelque quarante dernières années. On souligne le fait que l'intégration résolue et massive des immigrants à la communauté francophone du Québec est un phénomène nouveau, celui d'une seule génération. Suit une analyse de la colère publique qui s'est manifestée au Québec, surtout au cours de l'année 2007, sur la question des accommodements raisonnables. Un dérapage engendré par une distorsion perceptuelle. Enfin, différents modèles d'intégration sont confrontés et des propositions sont avancées. This article aims at shedding some light on Quebec's contemporary situation in matters of immigration. With a historical overview of the last forty years, it appears that a firm policy of massive integration of immigrants into the Francophone community is a new phenomenon, involving just one generation. Following is an analysis of the public anger that took place around 2007 on the issue of reasonable accommodations. This appears to correspond, in great part, to illfated misperceptions. Finally, different models of integration are confronted to Quebec's identity and some proposals are made.

Ethnicity in literature.

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Fifties Ethnicities brings together a variety of texts to explore what it meant to be American in the middle of "America's Century." In a series of comparative readings that draws on novels, television programs, movie magazines, and films, Tracy Floreani crosses generic boundaries to show how literature and mass media worked to mold concepts of ethnicity in the 1950s. Revisiting well-known novels of the period, such as Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, as well as less-studied works, such as William Saroyan's Rock Wagram and C. Y. Lee's The Flower Drum Song (the original source of the more famous Rodgers and Hammerstein musical), Floreani investigates how the writing of ethnic identity called into question the ways in which signifiers of Americanness also inherently privileged whiteness. By putting these novels into conversation with popular media narratives such as I Love Lucy, the author offers an in-depth examination of the boundaries and possibilities for participating in American culture in an era that greatly influenced national ideas about identity. While midcentury mass media presented an undeniably engaging vision of American success, national belonging, and guidelines for cultural citizenship, Floreani argues that minority writers and artists were, at the same time, engaging that vision and implicitly participating in its construction.

Immigrants in literature. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- American fiction --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- Minority authors

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The poet Mak Dizdar has become a cultural icon in contemporary Bosnia-Herzegovina. Inspired by the lapidary imagery and epitaphs of medieval Bosnian tombstones, his best-acclaimed collection of poetry, Stone Sleeper, reawakens the medieval voices in the historical imagination of contemporary Bosnians. Amila Buturovic looks at Stone Sleeper'srecovery of the ancestral world as an effort to refashion the sentiments of collective belonging. In treating the medieval tombstones as sites of collective memory, Dizdar's poetry evokes new possibilities for Bosnians to cast aside national differences based on religion and embrace a pluralistic identity rooted in the sacred landscape of medieval Bosnia. The book includes a bilingual appendix of Dizdar's poetry with an introduction by the translator, Francis Jones.

Ethnicity in literature. --- Dizdar, Mak --- Dizdar, Mak. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Bosnia and Hercegovina --- In literature.

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Swedish literature --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Social classes in literature. --- History and criticism.

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Cultural fictions - texts written from the perspective of the edge - are the focus of this exciting and enlightening book. The author examines the formations of narratives of identity in contemporary 'borderline' fictions and films. The work of migrant and marginalised groups located at the boundaries of nations, cultures, classes, ethnicities, sexualities and genders, is explored through an intricate weaving of theory with textual analysis. Organised around the themes of memory, tradition and 'belonging', the book proposes the space of 'migrant' writing - an emerging third space - as one that challenges fixed assumptions about identity.The cross-cultural range - including texts from British, Caribbean, Chinese-American, Indo-Caribbean, Canadian, Cuban and Indian writers; the original discussion of authors such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Gloria Anzaldua, Amy Tan, Gish Jen, Hanif Kureishi and Chang-rae Lee; and engagement with the work of theorists including Bakhtin, Freud, Lyotard, de Certeau, Deleuze and Guattari, produces a significant contribution to the broadening definitions of ethnicity and the 'post-colonial'.Works explored include Jasmine, Borderlands, The Joy Luck Club, The Wedding Banquet, Dreaming in Cuban, My Year of Meat, Buddha of Suburbia and East is East. These contemporary texts and films will make this book accessible to a broad range of readers.

Marginality, Social, in literature. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Fiction --- Minorities in motion pictures. --- History and criticism.