Nation and Self-Narration: A View from Québec/Quebec

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Author/collaborator
Title
Nation and Self-Narration: A View from Québec/Quebec
Abstract
A five part analysis of autobiographical writing, from political/public discourses and their deployment of autobiographical tropes to construct the life-narrative of the nation; to critical writing on Québec autobiography and its similar investment in a nation-building narrative; to autobiographical writings—first in French and French translation (in the case of Montagnais writer Ann Kapesh), then in English—which suggest a more complex relationship between the subject and the nation; and finally back to the political and the present, in anticipation of the future. The publications by English Quebecers examined include Gary Caldwell's La question du Québec anglais; Elspeth Probyn's Love in a Cold Climate: Queer Belongings in Quebec; Laurel Buck's Stream of Memory: Reflections of Megantic County; and Cliffton Ruggles' Outsider Blues.
Publication
Canadian Literature : A Quarterly of Criticism and Review
Volume
Vol. 172
Pages
17-38
Date
Spring 2002
Language
en
URL
Citation
Freiwald, Bina Toledo. “Nation and Self-Narration: A View from Québec/Quebec.” Canadian Literature : A Quarterly of Criticism and Review Vol. 172 (Spring 2002): 17–38. https://canlit.ca/full-issue/?issue=172.
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