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Format: 1 online resource (237 pages) : , color illustrations.

Edition: First edition.

ISBN: 3-031-45936-9

Content: This book focuses on modes of cultural belonging in Qubec. It looks at recent literary memoir, autobiographical fiction, and documentary testimony. Through four in-depth case studies of cultural creators, one Indigenous and three non-Indigenous, Dervila Cooke discusses multicultural and ethnically diverse society in Qubec, examining current tensions, challenges, and opportunities. Works studied range from Abla Farhoud's first novel in 1998 to Anita Aloisio's 2022 documentary film Calliari QC. Topics include the desire for freedom to self-ascribe and enact cultural identity, self-reinvention through fiction, expressions of Indigeneity in Naomi Fontaine, the term "Quebecois", especially after Bill 21, and the thorny question of integration of immigrants, discussed in relation to Akos Verboczy's Rhapsodie qubcoise. As with the companion volume on France, societal factors are discussed, here relating to the cultural renaissance of Indigenous writing, Farhoud's Libano-Quebecois context, and language laws in Quebec, including the foundational Bill 101 and the more recent Bill 96. Dervila Cooke teaches in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University, Ireland. She is the author of Present Pasts: Patrick Modiano's (Auto) Biographical Fictions (2005) and editor of New Work on Immigration and Identity in Contemporary France, Quebec and Ireland (2016), and of Modiano et limage (2012)

Note: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Ways of Belonging -- Introduction -- A Note on Scope, Process, and Structure -- From Transculture to Transculturality -- Heterolingual and Translingual Dynamics -- Intercultural and Multicultural Concepts and Realities -- Migrant, Transnational, and Transcultural Creativity: écriture migrante and Beyond -- Indigeneity, Positionality, and Multiple Worldviews -- Personal, Interpersonal, and Transpersonal Testimony -- National and Post-national Intersections -- References -- Chapter 2: Naomi Fontaine's Indigenous Writing: Self, Community, and Society -- Introduction -- Discrimination and Protest -- A Tradition of Vocal Innu Women -- Language and Identity: Between Innu-aimun and French -- The Kinetic, Visual Poetry of Kuessipan -- A Strong Kinetic Field -- Types of Silence, Pathways, Fragmentation, Correspondence -- Female Strength and Male Malaise -- Kuessipan, the Movie: Cross-cultural Collaboration12 -- Manikanetish and the Exceeding of Expectations -- Fighters, Not Victims -- Education and Eloquence as Tools for Empowerment -- Innu Pride and Tradition -- Reconnecting with How to Be an Innu: Interpersonal Relations and the Peace of Nutshimit -- Le Cid: Beyond Stereotype -- Shuni: Letters to Oneself and to Others -- Writing About Multiple Homes (and Who Is Being Written To) -- Self-affirmation and Hope -- Leadership, Female-to-Female Support, and Healing -- Identity, Innu-ness, and a Shared Space of Exchange -- References -- Chapter 3: Abla Farhoud: Montreal Migrations and the Ghost of Lebanon -- Introduction -- Lebanon as a Conflicted Presence -- Autofiction, Fiction, and a Sense of Adoption in Montreal -- Le Bonheur a la queue glissante: Language, Displacement, Resilience, and Pain -- Le Sourire de la petite juive: Montreality, Transculturality, and the Portrait of a Street. , A Dynamic Intervening Space -- Transcultural Encounter Within the Pages of a Book: Smiles and Potential Connections -- Mental Migrancies, Emotional Distress, and Transitional Life Stages -- Creative Solitudes, the Writing Process, and Autofictional Winks -- Toutes celles que j'étais: The Multiplicity of the Ever-reconfigured Self -- Repositionings and Displacements -- Aablè and Aabla: Heterolingualism, Autofiction, and a Complicated Relationship with Arabic -- In-betweenness, Acting, and Multiplicity -- Constant Migrations and a Productive Instability -- References -- Chapter 4: Anita Aloisio and Akos Verboczy, Children of la loi 101 -- Multicultural Realities -- Intercultural Collisions in Acts of Transcultural Creation -- From la loi 101 to la loi 96 -- Who Is a "Francophone" in Québec? -- The Révolution Tranquille, and the Survival of a surconscience linguistique -- Québécois Identity as a Societal Construct, Cultural "Othering", and la loi 21 -- Les Enfants de la loi 101: Aloisio's Wish for Conversations Around a Table -- A Sandwich Generation -- Vulnerability and Resilience -- The Value of Explanation and Debate -- Homes and Intercultural Spaces -- From Conflict to Cautious Optimism -- Aloisio's Calliari, QC: Marginality, Multiple Identities, and Loving Québec in Another Language -- Songs that Blend, Unsettle, and Transcend -- Verboczy's Rhapsodie québécoise: from "d'où viens-tu" to "où allons-nous"? -- More Québécois than the Established Québécois? -- Intertextuality as Pluriform Literary Home, and a Celebration of North American Culture -- Social Ghettos, and How to Transmit Québec's "patrimoine commun"? -- An Immigrant's Ambivalence About (Immigrant) Heritage -- Leclair and Plamondon's Les Québécois de la loi 101: Where to from Here?28 -- Mingling and Exchange: Must One Choose Between Heritages? -- References. , Chapter 5: Conclusion: Inscribing Home in Québec -- Introduction to the Conclusions -- From Inter-Trans-culturality Towards Reciprocity and cum-nascere1 -- Self-assertion and Self-reconfiguration -- Stories and Transmission, Readers and Listeners -- Language and Powerful Alterities -- Places and Spaces of Potentiality -- Where Worlds Collide -- References -- Index.

Additional Edition: ISBN 3-031-45935-0

Language: English