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Qu’est-ce que Port Acadie ? Vers une vision renouvelée pour notre revue

Susan Knutson, Chantal White and Clint Bruce

What is Port Acadie? Towards a Renewed Vision for Our Journal

Susan Knutson, Chantal White and Clint Bruce

Course et corsaires à l’île Royale durant la deuxième moitié du XVIIIe siècle

Nicolas Landry
This text paints a portrait of privateering and privateers on Île Royale (Cape Breton) during two colonial conflicts between France and England in the second half of the 18th century. The aim is not only to examine the functioning of this maritime activity, but also to test the hypothesis that it was orchestrated by a micro-society composed of colonial administrators, military officers, commercial ship-owners, ship captains, and crews. We will show that, just as in fishing and maritime trade, these players joined forces, but sometimes clashed over how to share the profits from privateering. More specifically, we will dissect the fundamental issues of the threat posed by English privateers cruising off Louisbourg, French losses, French management and assessment of catches, the methods of sales, and the fate of prisoners. Archival research also enables us to learn more about secondary issues, such as the routes of captured English ships, their crews, cargoes, shipowners, and, finally, the fate of the wounded and loss of life.

Défricher la parenté dans des traductions littéraires acadiennes

Danielle LeBlanc
Inspired by the traditional Acadian practice of (re)tracing ancestry known as défrichetage de parenté, this article aims to outline a connection between Acadian literary translations and the territory on which they were created. Through its dual function of storytelling and genealogical tracing, the concept of défrichetage de parenté frames aspects of a translation practice that stems from a territory that likewise harbours translational currents, thereby contributing to the development of a theoretical vocabulary of translation in Acadie. The article delves into five literary translations into French (Évangéline Deusse, William S, and Les drolatiques, horrifiques et épouvantables aventures de Panurge, ami de Pantagruel by Antonine Maillet, L’accoucheuse de Scots Bay by Sonya Malaborza, and Océan by Georgette LeBlanc) to identify narrative interventions created through the process of translation. These interventions surface as either a search for ancestors or a figurative restoration of a Francophone population in an area depleted of it during the Grand Dérangement. Finally, the narrative interventions are interpreted according to a non-genetic genealogical model to highlight the figure of the stranger and the creation of links (genealogical or intertextual) outside of family relations, especially relevant in a diasporic configuration of Acadian identity.

Venez vivre votre Acadie. De quelques ingrédients de la communication promotionnelle numérique du Congrès mondial acadien 2024

Laurence Arrighi
The Congrès mondial acadien (CMA, or World Acadian Congress) is a major discursive site for contemporary Acadie. While the event generates its share of political and polemical discourse, I propose here to examine the official digital promotional campaign (produced by the organizing committee and shared online) for the seventh edition of the CMA, to be held in August 2024 in southwestern Nova Scotia. An analysis of the messages and graphics published online shows that its discourse involves a series of ingredients inviting visitors to experience one of the most fashionable forms of tourism. Furthermore, by offering potential customers an authentic, exclusive, and memorable experience, the discourse deployed here goes beyond capitalizing on these current values; it works to defuse a recurring debate surrounding the CMA: who is it for? What does it aim to achieve? What does it offer Acadians? And, above all, who are these Acadians?

Le militant et l’essai : retour sur le début des années 1990 à travers Que le tintamarre commence ! et Le discours confisqué

Michelle Landry
Acadian essays offer a window onto the thinking of activists for the advancement of Acadian rights and recognition, but also onto the social issues and currents of thought of an era. This text takes a cross-sectional look at two essays that shed light on Acadian political issues in the early 1990s: Que le tintamarre commence ! by Jean-Marie Nadeau, published in 1992, and Le discours confisqué by Michel Doucet, published in 1995. By identifying and interweaving the treatment of identity and political issues in these two essays, this text will draw attention to the debates and ideas characteristic of these authors, and more broadly to the pivotal period of the early 1990s, some elements of which are in line with current issues.

Un panégyrique revisité : édition annotée du « Panégyrique de l’abbé Jean-Mandé Sigogne : missionnaire français à la baie Ste-Marie, N.-Écosse depuis 1799 jusqu’en 1844 », par le révérend père Philéas-F. Bourgeois, eudiste

Gérald C. Boudreau, Ph. D.

« La liberté » / « Déshumanisation »

Andrée Cormier

« Scions, sillons, si on » / « Là, qu’a dit l’Acadie ? »

Ricky G. Richard

« Le ciel d’Acadie »

Jean-Jacques Camy

Boudreau, Annette, Dire le silence : insécurité linguistique en Acadie 1867-1970, Sudbury, Prise de parole, 2021, 229 p., ISBN : 978-2-89744-132-6

Benjamin Peter

LeBlanc, Mélanie, Dans l’accent de la Baie : se construire Acadien dans le sud-ouest de la Nouvelle-Écosse, Sudbury, Prise de parole, 2021, 359 p., ISBN 9782897442750

Chantal White

LeBlanc, Ronnie-Gilles, Le Voyage de Rameau de Saint-Père en Acadie, 1860, Québec, Éditions du Septentrion et Institut d’études acadiennes, « Études acadiennes », 2018, 412 p., ISBN 978-2-89448-940-6

Clint Bruce

Neumann-Holzschuh, Ingrid et Julia Mitko, Grammaire comparée des français d’Acadie et de Louisiane (GraCoFAL), avec un aperçu sur Terre-neuve, Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, 2018, 942 p., ISBN 978-3-11-041686-2

Sandrine Hallion

Pichette, Jean-Pierre, La Danse de l’aîné célibataire : ou la résistance des marges, Presses de l’Université Laval, « Archives de folklore », vol. 33, 2019, 276 p., ISBN 978-2-7637-4570-1

Nathan Rabalais

Volpé, Philippe et Julien Massicotte, Au temps de la « révolution acadienne ». Les marxistes-léninistes en Acadie, Ottawa, Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, 2019, 260 p., ISBN 978‑2-7603-2821-1

Mathieu Wade

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