De l’«ensauvagement» de la littérature québécoise
About the “ensauvagement” of Quebec literature

Author(s): Eva Voldřichová Beránková
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Quebec literature; “ensauvagement”; First Nations; identity; interculturalism; ecology
Summary/Abstract: Among the emerging French-speaking literatures, the Indian and Inuit ones attract more and more attention of researchers, but also of contemporary writers. Indeed, the birth of literatures produced by the First Nations changes to a large extent the historical and literary contexts of Quebec. The article is devoted precisely to this re-reading of their own identity undertaken by Quebecers, fascinated and intrigued by the presence of an Other in both Canadian physical and literary space. The text first analyzes the paradoxical “concept of long duration” proposed by the Quebec historian Gérard Bouchard. Then it tries to outline the evolution of a more literary process called “ensauvagement of Quebec literature”, which consists of the current willingness to think America, nature, landscape, climate and interculturalism in a new way, enriched by the experience of Indigenous peoples.

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