Les Amérindiens de Jacques Ferron et la mythopoïésis identitaire
The Amerindians of Jacques Ferron and identity mythopoiesis

Author(s): Petr Kyloušek
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Quebec novel; Jacques Ferron; mythopoietic hybridity; myth of Orpheus; Native American Orpheus
Summary/Abstract: Jacques Ferron is the author of an «interdiscursive» work that takes advantage of the inclusive capacity of the aesthetic function to involve in his texts a program corresponding to the integrative phase of identity modeling (according to Bouchard). It is in this context that we should consider the mythopoietic attempt to realize a cultural mixing presented not only as a synthesis of French Canadianity with different aspects of Anglophone Americanity, but also as an integration of the Amerindian and Métis heritage in different works. The novel Le Ciel de Québec (1969) may be interpreted as a mythopoietic construction integrating Ancient Greek, Christian and Native American elements. The major example is the myth of Orpheus and the analogous Wendat myth recorded by Jesuit missionaries in their Relations, both associated with the Christian imaginary of the Resurrection.

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