De l’étranger à l’étrangeté : cosmopolitisme et altérité dans « Alexandre Chenevert » de Gabrielle Roy, « Rue Saint-Urbain » de Mordecai Richler et « L’Hiver de force » de Réjean Ducharme

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De l’étranger à l’étrangeté : cosmopolitisme et altérité dans « Alexandre Chenevert » de Gabrielle Roy, « Rue Saint-Urbain » de Mordecai Richler et « L’Hiver de force » de Réjean Ducharme
Abstract
The author notes that the novels “Alexandre Chenevert” by Gabrielle Roy, “Rue Saint-Urbain” (the French translation of The Street) by Mordecai Richler, and “L'Hiver de force” by Réjean Ducharme have Montreal as a common spatial reference. She contends that each in their own way, these novels create singular cartographies of the city. The author explains that in Roy's work, the city is labyrinthine. The protagonist finds a profusion of languages, signs, and symbols that participate in a ritual of passage in the practice of space. In Richler's work, the construction of Montreal involves an anamnesis, the creation of a collective memory of a neighbourhood that has disappeared and whose narrative attempts to revive the now scattered traces. As for Ducharme's protagonists, their topography of the city is part of an internalizing relationship that introduces an imaginary topography with a strong introspective dimension. Adopting a comparative perspective, the author’s analysis of this corpus of Montreal novels aims to study the ways in which the characters construct specific relationships to the city, which testifies to a particular mode of management of space and otherness. The author’s study of representations of Montreal in these novels is to understand the way in which space and places are invested with meanings. More than a mere effect of reality or a backdrop, space is inseparably linked to the narrative and reveals its diegetic and symbolic functioning.
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Master's Thesis
University
Université de Montréal
Place
Montréal
Date
2018
# of Pages
122p.
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fr
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Lamer, Marilyne. “De l’étranger à l’étrangeté : cosmopolitisme et altérité dans « Alexandre Chenevert » de Gabrielle Roy, « Rue Saint-Urbain » de Mordecai Richler et « L’Hiver de force » de Réjean Ducharme.” Master’s Thesis, Université de Montréal, 2018. https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1866/22000/Lamer_Marilyne_2018_m%c3%a9moire.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y.
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