Between languages and cultures : colonial and postcolonial readings of Gabrielle Roy / Rosemary Chapman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chapman, Rosemary, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roy, Gabrielle, 1909-1983--Criticism and interpretation.

Roy, Gabrielle.

Biculturalism in literature.

Bilingualism and literature.

Culture conflict in literature.

Canada--In literature.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Colonial and postcolonial readings of Gabrielle Roy

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gabrielle Roy is one of the best-known figures of Québec literature, yet she spent much of the first thirty years of her life studying, working, and living in English. For Roy, as a member of Manitoba's francophone minority, bilingualism was a necessary strategy for survival and success. How did this bilingual and bicultural background help shape her work as a writer in French? The implications of her linguistic and cultural identity are explored in chapters looking at education, language, translation, and the representation of Canada's other minorities, from the immigrants in Western Canada to the Inuit of Ungava. What emerges is a new reading of Roy's work. Drawing on archival material, postcolonial theory, and translation studies, Between Languages and Cultures explores the traces and effects of Roy's intimate knowledge of English language and culture, challenging and augmenting the established view that her work is distinctly French-Canadian or Québécois.

Contents:

Introduction: Power relations in Roy's Manitoba

The ambivalences of learning to be Canadian

Colonial legacies and the clandestine curriculum

Bilingualism, diglossia, and the other's language

Translating difference : conveying context

Writing Canada : finding a place between.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86627-3

9786612866272

0-7735-7580-4

OCLC:

759157079