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Between Languages and CulturesColonial and Postcolonial Readings of Gabrielle Roy |
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Gabrielle Roy and the creative ambivalence of bilingualism.
Gabrielle Roy is one of the best-known figures of Québec literature, yet she spent much of the first thirty years of her life studying, working, and living in English. For Roy, as a member of Manitoba's francophone minority, bilingualism was a necessary strategy for survival and success. How did this bilingual and bicultural background help shape her work as a writer in French? The implications of her linguistic and cultural identity are explored in chapters looking at education, language, translation, and the representation of Canada's other minorities, from the immigrants in Western Canada to the Inuit of Ungava. What emerges is a new reading of Roy's work.
Drawing on archival material, postcolonial theory, and translation studies, Between Languages and Cultures explores the traces and effects of Roy's intimate knowledge of English language and culture, challenging and augmenting the established view that her work is distinctly French-Canadian or Québécois.
Drawing on archival material, postcolonial theory, and translation studies, Between Languages and Cultures explores the traces and effects of Roy's intimate knowledge of English language and culture, challenging and augmenting the established view that her work is distinctly French-Canadian or Québécois.
Details
320 Pages, 6 x 9
20 b&w photos
ISBN 9780773534964
April 2009
Formats: Cloth, eBook
"With the objectivity of the historian and the sensitivity to textual nuance of the literary scholar, [Chapman] situates Roy's specific experiences within the broader colonial context to produce an innovative and well-documented study of a writer between languages and cultures. Her work is a valuable addition to Roy criticism." Carol J. Harvey, Great Plains Quarterly
"A fresh approach to the work of a major Canadian writer. Fascinating from beginning to end." Mary Jean Green, Dartmouth College, author of Women and Narrative Identity: Rewriting the Quebec National Text
"Chapman's book offers new areas of significant reflection to Roy specialists, while simultaneously opening up her work to a wider range of readers interested in postcolonial studies, translation studies, and language policy, the latter still an area of significant tension within Canada, notably but by no means exclusively in Quebec." MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
"This extremely well-documented and convincingly-argued study reveals aspects of Gabrielle Roy's life and work that have rarely been emphasized in francophone literary criticism. It educates us on the complexity of intercultural relationships at work in the writings of an author who explored the recesses of the Canadian mosaic with a rare sensitivity and focus. " Louise Ladouceur, Canadian Literature
"This book is remarkable for the range of its inquiry, and for the fresh light it sheds on issues central to much of Roy's oeuvre." Emile J. Talbot, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"A fresh approach to the work of a major Canadian writer. Fascinating from beginning to end." Mary Jean Green, Dartmouth College, author of Women and Narrative Identity: Rewriting the Quebec National Text
"Chapman's book offers new areas of significant reflection to Roy specialists, while simultaneously opening up her work to a wider range of readers interested in postcolonial studies, translation studies, and language policy, the latter still an area of significant tension within Canada, notably but by no means exclusively in Quebec." MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
"This extremely well-documented and convincingly-argued study reveals aspects of Gabrielle Roy's life and work that have rarely been emphasized in francophone literary criticism. It educates us on the complexity of intercultural relationships at work in the writings of an author who explored the recesses of the Canadian mosaic with a rare sensitivity and focus. " Louise Ladouceur, Canadian Literature
"This book is remarkable for the range of its inquiry, and for the fresh light it sheds on issues central to much of Roy's oeuvre." Emile J. Talbot, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Rosemary Chapman is reader in French and Canadian studies, University of Nottingham, and author of Siting the Quebec Novel: The Representation of Space in Francophone Writing in Quebec.
Tables vi
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Power Relations in Roy’s Manitoba 3
1 The Ambivalences of Learning to Be Canadian 19
2 Colonial Legacies and the Clandestine Curriculum 69
3 Bilingualism, Diglossia, and the Other’s Language 107
4 Translating Difference: Conveying Context 151
5 Writing Canada: Finding a Place Between 197
Notes 249
Bibliography 285
Index 303
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Power Relations in Roy’s Manitoba 3
1 The Ambivalences of Learning to Be Canadian 19
2 Colonial Legacies and the Clandestine Curriculum 69
3 Bilingualism, Diglossia, and the Other’s Language 107
4 Translating Difference: Conveying Context 151
5 Writing Canada: Finding a Place Between 197
Notes 249
Bibliography 285
Index 303
Shortlisted
Gapper Book Prize
Scholarly Association Society for French Studies (2010)
Winner
Le Prix Pierre Savard
International Council for Canadian Studies (2010)
Gapper Book Prize
Scholarly Association Society for French Studies (2010)
Winner
Le Prix Pierre Savard
International Council for Canadian Studies (2010)
