Carrier's French and English: "Yoked by Violence Together"

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Carrier's French and English: "Yoked by Violence Together"
Abstract
The author contends that Roch Carrier's La Guerre, Yes Sir! is essentially a novel of decolonization, in which Carrier exposes the dangerously protective values of commitment to the land and the Church and the fallacies of tradition by which French-Canadians have been subordinated and dominated. She maintains that the novel's attempt to reject the debilitating view of a peaceful, idyllic, rural life -- as portrayed in Louis Hémon's Maria Chapdelaine -- successfully brings to light the violence, both linguistic and behavioural, that characterizes a colonial revolt. The author argues that Carrier's characters feel unable to overcome the social, religious, sexual, and economic realities that frustrate them; their struggle unites them as a culturally homologous community, but also ties them to their oppressors, the Anglais.
Publication
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature Canadienne
Volume
Vol. 17
Issue
no. 2
Pages
92-108
Date
Summer 1992
Language
en
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Citation
Kamenish, Paula K. “Carrier’s French and English: ‘Yoked by Violence Together.’” Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature Canadienne Vol. 17, no. 2 (Summer 1992): 92–108. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/scl/article/view/8167/9224.
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