Trudeau - ”libretto” și ”verse drama” de George Elliott Clarke
George Elliott Clarke's Trudeau – “Libretto” and “Verse Drama”

Summary/Abstract: The article is an analytical approach to the 2007 Gaspereau edition of the well-known Canadian posmodernist George Elliot Clarke's Trudeau: Long March / Shining Path. Considered together, the book’s explanatory texts and the verse drama / libretto convincingly (de/re)construct the Canadian premier Pierre Elliott Trudeau's personality, his rise-and-fall in a worldwide historical, political, and cultural context, viewed from different vantage points. Though Clarke's new libretto for a jazz opera in collaboration with composer D. D. Jackson bears the “mask” of a classical five-act verse drama, it is actually a hybrid, transgressing the border of genres and corresponding to Linda Hutcheon’s mode of historiographic metafiction. Part and sequel of an extensive study of cultural polyphony in Clarke’s work, the article offers the Romanian readership an insight into Canadian multiculturalism in a moment when the late Pierre Elliott Trudeau's son Justin has become Canada's premier.

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