What is Québécois literature? : reflections on the literary history of Francophone writing in Canada / Rosemary Chapman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chapman, Rosemary, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French-Canadian literature--Québec (Province)--History and criticism.

French-Canadian literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 292 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

Includes some text in French.

Summary:

The question 'What is québécois literature?' may seem innocent and answerable, yet Rosemary Chapman's compelling study shows that to answer it is to chart the cultural history of French Canada, to put francophone writing in Canada in a postcolonial context and to ask whether literary history, with its focus on the nation, is in fact obsolete. This remarkable book will be compulsory reading for scholars well-versed in francophone postcolonial studies and will also act as an ideal introduction for anglophone scholars of Canadian literature. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 How has the literary history of francophone Canada been told in the twentieth century? 43

2 Literary history in the curriculum 103

3 The literary anthology as a tool of literary history 139

4 What does a nation-shaped literary history exclude from within and beyond Quebec? 177.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-283) and index.

ISBN:

1846319730

9781846319730

OCLC:

833574598