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Satiric Lament for a City: Mordecai Richler's Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!, Bill 101 and Montreal
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Satiric Lament for a City: Mordecai Richler's Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!, Bill 101 and Montreal
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Novelist and social commentator Mordecai Richler (1931-2001) found some of his favourite satirical targets (cultural nationalism, special pleading, injustice and anti-Semitism) fused in Quebec's aspirations for nationhood, especially as that ambition was expressed in Bill 101 and its many refinements. The author points out that in Richler's view, this law, meant to protect the French language in the province, drastically restricted the use of English, violating in outrageous fashion the democratic right to free expression of Quebec's non-Francophone minorities. Richler expressed these views in an article in the New Yorker magazine (1991), which became the basis for his book Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! Requiem for a Divided Country (1992). The author contextualises Richler's satire in the history of Canadian satire, then briefly in relation to Richler's relation to Montreal, and finally in Quebec history with particular reference to the language debates.
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British Journal of Canadian Studies
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Vol. 24
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no. 1
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49-67
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May 2011
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en
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Lynch, Gerald. “Satiric Lament for a City: Mordecai Richler’s Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!, Bill 101 and Montreal.” British Journal of Canadian Studies Vol. 24, no. 1 (May 2011): 49–67.
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