REWRITING INTERCULTURALISM IN QUÉBEC SOME LITERARY EXAMPLES
REWRITING INTERCULTURALISM IN QUÉBEC SOME LITERARY EXAMPLES

Summary/Abstract: The social and cultural fabric of Québec has been profoundly transformed for about twenty years. Québec, and in particular Montréal, have now become increasingly plural. In the younger generation, as in the previous ones, identities are still only defined by starting from a pre-established cultural and family background, perhaps Québécoise, but perhaps also Haitian, Algerian, Chinese, or Polish. In an almost irreversible way, the borders move or are reduced. Marco Micone, Jean Jonassaint, Régine Robin, and Dany Laferrière, all write from a space which is at the same time both within, and peripheral to, Quebec society. Their marginality is expressed both explicitly in the thematic material of their writing and textually through choices of language and form.

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