English Writing in Quebec after 1976: A Case Study of Six Literary Works Based on the Theory of Minor Literature by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
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English Writing in Quebec after 1976: A Case Study of Six Literary Works Based on the Theory of Minor Literature by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
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Abstract |
The author investigates contemporary English writing in and about Quebec as a possible minor phenomenon. Motivated by the debate around the affirmation of a possible "Anglo-Québécois" community, he investigates if such a literature has the elements to re-territorialize itself within Quebec as an "Anglo-Québécois literature." The author analyzes six works -- three plays and three novels: David Fennario's 'Balconville', Vittorio Rossi's 'Paradise by the River', Ann Lambert's 'Very Heaven', Marianne Ackerman's 'Jump', Linda Leith's 'Birds of Passage', and Jeffrey Moore's 'Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain'. The author concludes that, based on these six literary works, there is no real sense of an English-speaking community in Quebec, and its English writing is a "bricolage of languages and cultures."
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Master's Thesis
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Université de Sherbrooke
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Sherbrooke, QC
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2012
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vi-131p.
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en
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Labarre, Michael. “English Writing in Quebec after 1976: A Case Study of Six Literary Works Based on the Theory of Minor Literature by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.” Master’s Thesis, Université de Sherbrooke, 2012. http://savoirs.usherbrooke.ca/bitstream/handle/11143/5725/MR91673.pdf?sequence=1.
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