Québec’s New Regional Fiction: Louise Penny and Johanne Seymour

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Title
Québec’s New Regional Fiction: Louise Penny and Johanne Seymour
Abstract
The author notes that Louise Penny’s Still Life (2005) and Johanne Seymour’s Le Cri du cerf (2005) are both murder mysteries set in the Eastern Townships, in south-eastern and south-central Quebec. Much of the region borders the United States. She points out that to varying degrees, the border makes its presence felt in the novels by Penny and Seymour, along with other landmarks familiar to domestic audiences. The author argues that the apparent situatedness of the texts is, however, challenged by their adherence to the formal conventions of the murder mystery and associated subgenres. In so doing, she claims that Still Life and Le Cri du cerf foster multi-layered readings which, in bringing together the hyper-local and the international, prompt a reconsideration of understandings of regional fiction.
Publication
British Journal of Canadian Styudies
Date
September 2021
Volume
Vol. 33
Issue
no. 2
Pages
225-240
Language
en
Citation
Morgan, Ceri. “Québec’s New Regional Fiction: Louise Penny and Johanne Seymour.” British Journal of Canadian Styudies Vol. 33, no. 2 (September 2021): 225–240.
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