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This book focuses on modes of cultural belonging in Québec. It looks at recent literary memoir, autobiographical fiction, and documentary testimony. Through four in-depth case studies of cultural creators, one Indigenous and three non-Indigenous, Dervila Cooke discusses multicultural and ethnically diverse society in Québec, examining current tensions, challenges, and opportunities. Works studied range from Abla Farhoud’s first novel in 1998 to Anita Aloisio’s 2022 documentary film Calliari QC. Topics include the desire for freedom to self-ascribe and enact cultural identity, self-reinvention through fiction, expressions of Indigeneity in Naomi Fontaine, the term “Québécois”, especially after Bill 21, and the thorny question of integration of immigrants, discussed in relation to Akos Verboczy’s Rhapsodie québécoise. As with the companion volume on France, societal factors are discussed, here relating to the cultural renaissance of Indigenous writing, Farhoud’s Libano-Québécois context, and language laws in Québec, including the foundational Bill 101 and the more recent Bill 96. Dervila Cooke teaches in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University, Ireland. She is the author of Present Pasts: Patrick Modiano's (Auto) Biographical Fictions (2005) and editor of New Work on Immigration and Identity in Contemporary France, Québec and Ireland (2016), and of Modiano et l’image (2012).
French-Canadian literature --- Immigrants' writings, French-Canadian. --- Group identity --- Group identity in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Literature, Modern --- Comparative literature. --- European literature. --- America --- Literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Comparative Literature. --- European Literature. --- North American Literature. --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Literatures.
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Over the last four decades, the largest French-speaking state in North America, QuZbec, has nested more than a dozen vibrant modes of French expression created by members of the varied cultural communities that have settled there. Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature examines the works of several first-generation Canadian authors originating from Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, and the Maghreb, who produced a trilingual literature that reflects the diversity of their cultural backgrounds. By casting a critical eye on the works of Saad Elkhadem, Naim Kattan, Abla Farhoud, Wajdi
French-Canadian literature --- Immigrants' writings, French-Canadian --- Exiles in literature. --- Arabs in literature. --- Group identity in literature. --- Arabs --- Ethnology --- Semites --- French-Canadian immigrants' writings --- Canadian literature (French) --- French literature --- Arab authors --- History and criticism. --- Ethnic identity. --- Arabs in literature --- Exiles in literature --- Group identity in literature --- 82.04 --- 840 <71> --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- Literaire thema's --- 840 <71> Franse literatuur--Canada --- Franse literatuur--Canada --- Ethnic identity --- Arab authors&delete& --- History and criticism
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