L'"enquébécoisement" de l'Irlande: la représentation de l'Irlande et des irlandais dans le roman québécois de 1960 à nos jours

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L'"enquébécoisement" de l'Irlande: la représentation de l'Irlande et des irlandais dans le roman québécois de 1960 à nos jours
Abstract
The author points out that the strong incorporatist tendencies of nineteenth century French-Canadian culture made an indelible mark on the experience of Irish immigrants in Quebec and continues to shape the perception of this experience in the Franco-Quebec imagination. She maintains that the Quebec novel, from 1960 to 2000, responds to and revises both historical and contemporary stereotypes of Irishness. Through the analysis of representations of the Irish in nine Quebec novels (seven French and two English), the author argues that one can gain a fascinating insight into the cultural processes which construct and encode each author’s experience of Irishness, and the silences entailed in these representations often suggest vast narratives far more evocative than anything revealed. As recently as the end of the twentieth century, she notes, certain Quebec authors of historical novels fail to distance themselves from notions of Irishness which pervade ethno-nationalist rhetoric in which Irish identity is defined in opposition to constructions of British identity. However, the author believes, works by writers such as Brian Moore (The Luck of Ginger Coffey and The Mangan Inheritance), Jacques Ferron (Le Salut de l'Irlande) and Louis Gauthier (Voyage en Irlande avec un parapluie) succeed in surpassing the limitations of nationalist frameworks to which the historical novel succumbs. She argues that in generating more inclusive definitions of lrishness, these texts reconstitute it as a broader entity in an age of avowed pluralism.
Type
Master's Thesis
University
Université de Montréal
Place
Montréal
Date
2003
# of Pages
v-101p.
Language
fr
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O’Gorman, Sinead. “L’"enquébécoisement" de l’Irlande: la représentation de l’Irlande et des irlandais dans le roman québécois de 1960 à nos jours.” Master’s Thesis, Université de Montréal, 2003. https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1866/14951/OGorman_Sinead_2003_memoire.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.
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