2008, French, English, Book, Illustrated edition: Migrance comparée : les littératures du Canada et du Québec = Comparing migration : the literatures of Canada and Québec / Marie Carrière & Catherine Khordoc (éds/eds).

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Migrance comparée : les littératures du Canada et du Québec = Comparing migration : the literatures of Canada and Québec / Marie Carrière & Catherine Khordoc (éds/eds)
 
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  • ix, 358 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Published
  • Bern ; Oxford : Peter Lang, c2008.
Language
  • French
  • English

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Title
  • Migrance comparée : les littératures du Canada et du Québec =​ Comparing migration : the literatures of Canada and Québec /​ Marie Carrière &​ Catherine Khordoc (éds/​eds).
Also Titled
  • Comparing migration
Other Authors
  • Carrière, Marie J., 1971-
  • Khordoc, Catherine.
Published
  • Bern ; Oxford : Peter Lang, c2008.
Physical Description
  • ix, 358 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Contents
  • Machine derived contents note: Introduction
  • Marie CARRIÈRE et Catherine KHORDOC
  • Pourquoi comparer? /​ Why Compare?
  • Dans le contexte actuel de la mondialisation, les grands déplacements de population touchent directement le Canada, pays officiellement multiculturel depuis 1988. Parmi ces déplacés du monde on compte des réfugiés, des exilés politiques, des immigrants fuyant la pauvreté, ceux qui sont en quête d¿une vie meilleure ou de renouveau, et aussi des nomades sans pays ou appartenance fixe. Ils viennent tenter leur chance au Canada, surtout dans ses grandes métropoles comme Montréal et Toronto, et parmi eux, bien sûr, on trouve des romanciers, des poètes, des dramaturges, des essayistes. La double spécificité du cadre quitté et du cadre adopté influencera l¿état économique, social ainsi que psychique de l¿auteur migrant mais plus important encore, éclairera son écriture. Il devra aussi s¿insérer dans un champ littéraire existant, qu¿il contribuera à modifier à son tour. Il va donc presque sans dire que le pluralisme culturel de la littérature produite aujourd¿hui au Canada et au Québec doit faire repenser non seulement les enjeux de ces deux espaces littéraires mais aussi la relation entre eux.
  • Literary criticism has applied only too rarely a comparative methodology to French and English-language Canadian letters. Existing collections on issues of immigration and multiculturalism in Québec and English Canada appear mostly in English, as in the case of Contrasts: Comparative Essays on Italian Canadian Writing by Joseph Pivato as well as the pioneering effort of Other Solitudes: Canadian Multicultural Fictions by Linda Hutcheon and Marion Richmond. Although the articles in Adjacencies: Minority Writing in Canada, edited by Lianne Moyes et al., are written in English, several of them intertwine the analysis of French- and Englishlanguage texts and, perhaps even more significantly, take into theoretical and critical writings from the Québécois context. In Writing Ethnicity: Cross-Cultural Consciousness in Canadian and Québécois Literature, Winfried Siemerling assembles critical studies on an array of authors of various origins, and includes two texts in French on Québécois literature. However, the English-language collection, Floating the Borders: New Contexts in Canadian Criticism by Nurjehan Aziz leaves space for only one study (in English) on Québécois literature. More balanced in terms of content and language use, Bénédicte Maugière¿s edition, Cultural Identities in Canadian Literature /​ Identités culturelles dans la littérature canadienne, tackles the multiplicity of cultural identities as they are played out in the literary contexts of Québec and English Canada. Another bilingual collaboration, Roman contemporain et identité culturelle en Amérique du Nord /​ Contemporary Fiction and Cultural Identity in North America, edited by Jaap Lintvelt et al., treats similar issues in relation to the contemporary novel of Canada, Québec, the United States and Mexico. Finally, Culture et colonisation en Amérique du Nord: Canada, Etats-Unis, Mexique /​ Culture and Colonization in North America: Canada, United States, Mexico, edited by Lintvelt et al., examines relations between culture and colonization.1
  • Le fait de réunir, dans Migrance comparée, des textes dans les deux langues officielles du Canada, ainsi que d¿introduire ce volume et en français et en anglais, relève en partie de la nécessité de faire un état des lieux des tendances critiques actuelles des deux contextes linguistiques que nous abordons ci-après. Dans ce collectif, on remarquera une étude rédigée en anglais et axée sur la littérature québécoise (Ireland et Proulx), phénomène fréquent dans la critique anglophone (notamment étasunienne2), tandis que le Québec n¿aura pas manifesté un intérêt pareil envers la littérature d¿expression anglaise.3 En revanche, parmi les six études de nature comparative de ce collectif (celles de Marie Carrière, de Marc Charron et Christiane Melançon, d¿Anna Branach-Kallas, de L. Chris Fox, d¿Anne Marie Miraglia et de Kate Higginson), trois d¿entre elles sont issues de la critique francophone, ce qui pourrait signaler une tendance contraire à celle d¿ouvrages précédents sur la littérature canadienne comparée provenant, exclusivement
  • 1 This overview is not meant to be exhaustive.
  • 2 Voir, par exemple, l¿ouvrage collectif rassemblé par Susan Ireland et Patrice J. Proulx
  • ainsi que la monographie de Karen Gould. 3
  • Signalons toutefois l¿exception faite, surtout récemment, à la littérature anglo-québécoise qui suscite un intérêt notable, comme en témoigne les numéros récents de Voix et Images et Spirale ainsi que le dossier de Francine Bordeleau dans Lettres Québécoises, consacrés à ce champs.
  • depuis la dernière décennie, d¿un contexte critique anglophone (Carrière [Writing], Dickinson, Siemerling [Discoveries et Writing], Vautier [New World], Verduyn).
  • In terms of comparative Canadian studies on the issue of migration, the terrain remains very fragmentary. This volume¿s inclusion (and thus implicit juxtaposition) of critical studies in French and in English commits itself to starting to fill this gap. In bringing together, through a dual language collection, two distinct but also related literary contexts ¿ by including in a single volume methodologies, theoretical approaches and concepts usually reserved to one or the other literary context ¿ Comparing Migration reflects on that which distinguishes writings on migration in English and French but also on that which binds them together. As Naïm Kattan explains in an essay entitled L¿Ecrivain migrant, in which he discusses both Québécois and Canadian writing, the term écriture migrante may well be transitory, but it is also «le signe d¿une reprise, une dimension d¿une littérature qui ne craint plus la disparition, la dissolution, qui ne s¿entoure plus de précautions afin d¿éviter toute altération, mais accepte tous les éléments d¿un mouvement de création qui, par son dynamisme, est garant d¿un avenir et manifestation d¿une présence» (21). Thus, the representation of the two literary contexts, in regards to migration as well as the multitude of approaches, terms and questions raised by the study of this literature, seeks to advance comparative Canadian criticism. Because of what we perceive as the lack of sustained dialogue between French and English criticism in Québec and Canada, the following sketches out some of the critical tendencies that dominate each literary context and that, to our minds, have the potential to foster further exchange and perhaps even the reconfiguration of some of these literary discourses.
  • Critical Tendancies: Québec
  • The issue and usage of literary terms are far from simple, especially when questions of cultural plurality are involved. If, in the critical discourse of English Canada, adjectives such as multicultural, ethnic or diasporic are common, they are rarely used by Québécois critics. The term écriture migrante, coined by Robert Berrouët-Oriol in the mid-1980s (although often attributed to Pierre Nepveu), is most prevalent, even though interculturel, transculturel, métisse, and hybride are also used and debated. In fact, when Nepveu uses the term écriture migrante in his seminal study, L¿Ecologie du réel: Mort et naissance de la littérature québécoise contemporaine, he emphasizes that migrante is preferable to immigrante because of the latter¿s focus on the sociological phenomenon of immigration, whereas the former refers more aptly to an aesthetic practice, hence a poetics, through which notions of movement and drifting, central to the experience of immigration, exile and cultural identity, are expressed.4
  • Unlike the English-speaking context that examines Chinese-Canadian or Black Writing for instance, Québécois criticism rarely makes use of the French equivalents of these terms, considering, perhaps, the obviously smaller population of Québec (and therefore its smaller community of writers, scholars, students, and readers). However, there are two notable exceptions: Italian- and Jewish-Québécois writing. Possible explanations for such designations include the fact that writers of Italian origin have not only been involved in the creation of fiction but also in the development of the cultural and social discourses surrounding migrant writing, through important publishing ventures (such as Antonio d¿Alfonso¿s Guernica Editions) and the now defunct yet ground-breaking magazine, Vice Versa. Interestingly, Italian migrant writing has lent itself to a number of comparative studies. Pivato¿s publications on Italian-Canadian writing, for example, includes studies on French and English writing by Italian immigrants (as does Anne Marie Miraglia¿s chapter in this volume).
  • In turn, Jewish writing in Québec is not necessarily examined in light of immigrant experience or écriture migrante per se. Authors like A. M. Klein and Leonard Cohen are not usually considered migrant writers, although the situation is different when it comes to Jewish writing in French. Though there are not many writers that fall into this category, two of its most prominent voices, Régine Robin and Naïm Kattan, have certainly been at the centre of discussions on migrant writing and experience, through their contributions to fiction but also to critical and theoretical analyses. Notably, Sherry Simon, who has written extensively on cultural hybridity and.
Notes
  • Formerly CIP.
  • Includes bibliographical references.
  • Text in French and English.
Language
  • French
  • English
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  • 9783039113170 (pbk.) :
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  • 810.99206960971
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