Les modeles identitaires et la littérature autochtone du Québec
| Title in English | Identity models and Quebec Aboriginal literature |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Les Cultures du Canada: au-dela du passé, vers l’avenir / The Culteres of Canada: beyonf the Past, towards the Future |
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| Keywords | Identity models; Quebec literature; Quebec Aboriginal literature |
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| Description | The Aboriginal as a fiction character appears in literary texts since Marc Lescarbot's Le Théâtre de Neptune (1606), and emerges - episodically, but significantly - in Antoine Gérin-Lajoie's Le Jeune Latour (1844) and Louis-Honoré Fréchette's Papineau (1880), but only with Yves Thériaut's Ashini (1960) and the authors of the 1950s and 1960s - Gabrielle Roy, Leonard Cohen and Jacques Ferron - that Quebec literature opened up to the question of otherness, even before Aboriginal authors entered the literary scene and the first critical works on the subject were published. The literary output of Aboriginal authors is now numerous and representative enough to raise the question of identity, self-image and the other. The paper examines this issue with reference to the identity model applied to Quebec society by Gérard Bouchard (2001), which we have adapted to the analysis of literary texts (Kyloušek, 2009). While Bouchard's Quebec identity typology - ranging from the protonational to the postmodern - spans more than two centuries, the one we can exemplify among Aboriginal authors presents a specific condensation of three decades. Is it a transfer? An introduction imposed by the majority on the minority? Or is it simply a universal phenomenon that occurs with all emerging literature? We propose to reflect on the texts of several Aboriginal authors - Jean Sioui, Romeo Saganash, Myra Cree, Michel Jean, Naomi Fontaine, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine - to grasp the image of the other and of oneself that they project in their texts. |