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Transatlantic PassagesLiterary and Cultural Relations between Quebec and Francophone Europe |
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An interdisciplinary, literary, critical, and creative anthology that explores cultural connections between Quebec and francophone Europe.
Despite a burgeoning interest in transatlantic and regional studies, the long-standing cultural connections between francophone communities on both sides of the Atlantic have received little critical attention. Transatlantic Passages presents essays, interviews, and images that address the often-neglected cultural commerce integral to understanding historical and contemporary identities in Quebec and francophone Europe.
Drawing on a wide range of perspectives and expertise, the contributors consider transatlantic cultural figures, parallel cultural movements, cityscapes, cinema, art, photography, literature, comics, music, and spectacles that reveal transfers and confluences of ideas between the two continents. Including original creative works - many available in English for the first time - this collection draws compelling conclusions about the ways cultures and individuals communicate and inspire each other and illuminates the unique francophone dimension of transatlantic exchanges.
Drawing on a wide range of perspectives and expertise, the contributors consider transatlantic cultural figures, parallel cultural movements, cityscapes, cinema, art, photography, literature, comics, music, and spectacles that reveal transfers and confluences of ideas between the two continents. Including original creative works - many available in English for the first time - this collection draws compelling conclusions about the ways cultures and individuals communicate and inspire each other and illuminates the unique francophone dimension of transatlantic exchanges.
Details
360 Pages, 6 x 9
ISBN 9780773537903
October 2010
Formats: Paperback, Cloth, eBook
"This is a wonderful book. Conceptualized and put together by two very capable Quebec scholars, the quality of the essays included is excellent and the introduction is itself, a succinct yet provocative piece of work. Transatlantic Passages takes the reader on a creative voyage." : -Lynn Penrod, Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Law, University of Alberta
"...its interdisciplinary critical articles and creative works reveal the richness of the literary, cultural, and artistic exchanges between [Francophone Europe and Quebec]." CHOICE
"...its interdisciplinary critical articles and creative works reveal the richness of the literary, cultural, and artistic exchanges between [Francophone Europe and Quebec]." CHOICE
Paula Ruth Gilbert is a professor of French, Canadian, and women and gender studies at George Mason University and is the author of Violence and the Female Imagination: Quebec's Women Writers Re-frame Gender in North American Cultures.
Miléna Santoro is an associate professor of French at Georgetown University and the author of Mothers of Invention: Feminist Authors and Experimental Fiction in France and Quebec.
Miléna Santoro is an associate professor of French at Georgetown University and the author of Mothers of Invention: Feminist Authors and Experimental Fiction in France and Quebec.
Transatlantic Passages
Edited by Paula Ruth Gilbert and Miléna Santoro
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: On “Passages,” Passeurs and Passeuses in Paris and Montreal | 3
PAULA RUTH GILBERT and MILÉNA SANTORO
Women’s History and Passages across the Atlantic
A Place for the Spirit: Canada as Dream and Reality in the Autobiographical Writings of the Women of New France | 29
PATRICIA SMART
Time, Sir | 47
MONIQUE PROULX
French and Quebec Feminisms: Influences and Reciprocities | 50
CHANTAL MAILLÉ
Je m’en vais à Trieste (excerpt) | 60
NICOLE BROSSARD
European Cultural Influences on Quebec Writers
Writing Beyond Redemption: Hubert Aquin and Mordecai Richler in Postwar Paris | 67
PATRICK COLEMAN
Des châteaux en Suisse? Switzerland in the Quebec Imagination:
Aquin and Brossard | 80
KAREN MCPHERSON
Je m’en vais à Trieste (excerpt) | 95
NICOLE BROSSARD
Chez Nous: Gail Scott’s My Paris | 97
LORNA IRVINE
My Paris (excerpt) | 105
GAIL SCOTT
Transatlantic Reading in the Works of France Théoret | 107
KAREN L. GOULD
Literary Border Crossings: Reconceptualizing Montesquieu’s
Lettres persanes in Lise Gauvin’s Lettres d’une autre and Chahdortt Djavann’s Comment peut-on être français? | 122
PATRICE J. PROULX
France in the Heart of the Eastern Townships | 136
LOUISE DUPRÉ
The Theatrical Space of Exchange
Marie Cardinal, Translator of Myths and Theatre: The Words to Say Difference | 141
LOUISE H. FORSYTH
(Post)Colonial Performances: Nationalist and Post-nationalist
Quebec Theater in Europe | 157
JANE MOSS
Michel Cochet on Larry Tremblay: An Auto-Interview | 174
MICHEL COCHET
Franco-European Immigrant Voices in Quebec
From Flâneuse to Cybernomad: Roaming the World with Régine Robin | 179
MARY JEAN GREEN
Transatlantic Crossings in the Work of Alice Parizeau and Naïm Kattan | 190
SUSAN IRELAND
From Europe to Quebec Cinematic History | 205
WERNER NOLD
Three Demoiselles sauvages in Search of Other Worlds: Corinna Bille and Gabrielle Roy in the Films of Léa Pool | 209
RACHEL KILLICK
Contemporary Art Forms and Popular Culture
Riopelle and Me: Impression passagère | 227
BONNIE BAXTER
Crossings: In Situ Art in Transit | 258
FRANÇOIS MORELLI
A Quiet Evolution: Artist’s Books in Quebec and France (Beausoleil, Dorion, Desautels) | 266
ALISA BELANGER
La Chanson québécoise: Not the Same Old (French) Song | 286
BRIAN THOMPSON
Ce soir je chante à l’Olympia/Tonight I’m Singing at the Olympia | 301
ROBERT CHARLEBOIS
(Not so) Separate but Unequal: On the Circulation of Popular Culture Items between France and Quebec | 305
GUY SPIELMANN
Contributors | 327
Index | 337
Contents ix
Edited by Paula Ruth Gilbert and Miléna Santoro
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: On “Passages,” Passeurs and Passeuses in Paris and Montreal | 3
PAULA RUTH GILBERT and MILÉNA SANTORO
Women’s History and Passages across the Atlantic
A Place for the Spirit: Canada as Dream and Reality in the Autobiographical Writings of the Women of New France | 29
PATRICIA SMART
Time, Sir | 47
MONIQUE PROULX
French and Quebec Feminisms: Influences and Reciprocities | 50
CHANTAL MAILLÉ
Je m’en vais à Trieste (excerpt) | 60
NICOLE BROSSARD
European Cultural Influences on Quebec Writers
Writing Beyond Redemption: Hubert Aquin and Mordecai Richler in Postwar Paris | 67
PATRICK COLEMAN
Des châteaux en Suisse? Switzerland in the Quebec Imagination:
Aquin and Brossard | 80
KAREN MCPHERSON
Je m’en vais à Trieste (excerpt) | 95
NICOLE BROSSARD
Chez Nous: Gail Scott’s My Paris | 97
LORNA IRVINE
My Paris (excerpt) | 105
GAIL SCOTT
Transatlantic Reading in the Works of France Théoret | 107
KAREN L. GOULD
Literary Border Crossings: Reconceptualizing Montesquieu’s
Lettres persanes in Lise Gauvin’s Lettres d’une autre and Chahdortt Djavann’s Comment peut-on être français? | 122
PATRICE J. PROULX
France in the Heart of the Eastern Townships | 136
LOUISE DUPRÉ
The Theatrical Space of Exchange
Marie Cardinal, Translator of Myths and Theatre: The Words to Say Difference | 141
LOUISE H. FORSYTH
(Post)Colonial Performances: Nationalist and Post-nationalist
Quebec Theater in Europe | 157
JANE MOSS
Michel Cochet on Larry Tremblay: An Auto-Interview | 174
MICHEL COCHET
Franco-European Immigrant Voices in Quebec
From Flâneuse to Cybernomad: Roaming the World with Régine Robin | 179
MARY JEAN GREEN
Transatlantic Crossings in the Work of Alice Parizeau and Naïm Kattan | 190
SUSAN IRELAND
From Europe to Quebec Cinematic History | 205
WERNER NOLD
Three Demoiselles sauvages in Search of Other Worlds: Corinna Bille and Gabrielle Roy in the Films of Léa Pool | 209
RACHEL KILLICK
Contemporary Art Forms and Popular Culture
Riopelle and Me: Impression passagère | 227
BONNIE BAXTER
Crossings: In Situ Art in Transit | 258
FRANÇOIS MORELLI
A Quiet Evolution: Artist’s Books in Quebec and France (Beausoleil, Dorion, Desautels) | 266
ALISA BELANGER
La Chanson québécoise: Not the Same Old (French) Song | 286
BRIAN THOMPSON
Ce soir je chante à l’Olympia/Tonight I’m Singing at the Olympia | 301
ROBERT CHARLEBOIS
(Not so) Separate but Unequal: On the Circulation of Popular Culture Items between France and Quebec | 305
GUY SPIELMANN
Contributors | 327
Index | 337
Contents ix
