L’ESPACE COMME RÉINVENTION DU SOI CHEZ HÉLÈNE FRÉDÉRICK ET JOCELYNE SAUCIER
SPACE AS REINVENTION OF THE SELF IN HÉLÈNE FRÉDÉRICK AND JOCELYNE SAUCIER

Summary/Abstract: Space as Reinvention of the Self in Hélène Frédérick and Jocelyne Saucier. In both Forêt contraire (2014), by Hélène Frédérick, and Il pleuvait des oiseaux (2011), by Jocelyne Saucier, a forest becomes a place of personal transformation, through which characters undergo a ritual of passage. In the separation phase, as anthropologist Victor Turner calls it, the characters leave the community to enter the forest, a liminary space in which they can resolve their problems of identity. Within the sacred space of the forest, cabins play a key role, as they allow not only interpersonal communication but also the expression of art. Art is the means by which the characters are reintegrated into the society to which they return.

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