Les camps d’une Grande Guerre oubliée : la littérature périphérique contre la mémoire empêchée au Québec
Camps of a Certain, Forgotten Great War: Peripheral Literature Against Blocked Memory in Quebec
Author(s): Piotr SadkowskiSubject(s): French Literature, Other Language Literature, Theory of Literature, American Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: Quebec; Great War; internment/concentration camps; victims; blocked memory;
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to examine attempts to transgress the stereotypical view of victims based on Spirit Lake, 1915-1917 by Gilles Massicotte, Les Amants maudits de Spirit Lake by Claire Bergeron, Spirit Lake by Sylvie Brien and Prisoners in the Promised Land by Marsha Skrypuch. All of them focus on an embarrassing episode for the collective memory: the existence of internment camps in Quebec during the First World War, which were intended for immigrants, mostly of Ukrainian origin, who were treated as enemies because of their origin from the territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Journal: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
- Issue Year: 47/2023
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 51-60
- Page Count: 10
- Language: French