Antonine Maillet : Les trésors cachés - Our Hidden Treasures Les trésors cachés - Our Hidden Treasures / the Honourable Antonine Maillet, 2016 recipient of the Symons medal = Les tresors cachesl'Honorable Antonine Maillet, laureat de la medaille Symons en 2016.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maillet, Antonine, 1929- author.

Series:

The Symons medal series = Collection de la medaille Symons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiculturalism--Canada.

Multiculturalism.

Language and culture--Canada.

Language and culture.

Canada--Race relations.

Canada.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, 2017.

Summary:

A veritable artist, Maillet becomes a "creator of sounds, of colours, of forms and words." As she speaks, she paints a vast landscape of mountains and oceans, history and story, using the tools on her palette: blending the colours of myths and those of contemporary issues, creating an epic poem in a profoundly personal voice. This country she portrays is both young and old, speaks two languages, has a rich subconscious, and aspirations. She ends her lecture by re-telling a story originally written by Rabelais- which, incidentally, was penned the same year as the discovery of America. The grande dame of storytelling uses her art to make an appeal for solidarity, in favour of the protection of cultures and the preservation of languages. Will her country, she asks, the one made "of many faces" and paradoxes, "be able to give nations of diverse origins their rightful place?" Renowned, notably, for her iconic play La Sagouine, Antonine Maillet received the prestigious Prix Goncourt for her novel Pélagie-la-Charette, thereby becoming the first non-European laureate of the most prestigious award in France. Since then, she has published over twenty novels and many plays, and also translated several celebrated authors such as Shakespeare. She is the recipient of numerous literary awards, including the Governor General Literary Award, the Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal, and the Prix Goncourt. This book is bilingual.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Collection de la medaille Symons

Table des matieres

Avant-propos

Introduction. Lhonorable Wade MacLauchlan

Les tresors caches

Postface. La Grande Emancipation: les Acadiens dans le monde daujourdhui

Notes biographiques

Centre des arts de la Confederation, laureats de la medaille Symons

The Symons Medal Series

Our Hidden Treasures

Table of Contents 2

Foreword

Introduction The Honourable Wade MacLauchlan

Afterword: La grande emancipation: Acadians in the World Today

Biographical Notes

Confederation Centre of the Arts Symons Medalists

The Symons Medal Series

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780776625881

0776625888

9780776625898

0776625896

OCLC:

1017609629