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Étienne Rivard

Entrevue : Ibrahima Diallo

Jérôme Melançon

La trajectoire de mon écriture

Annette Saint-Pierre

Genre, transgression et féminité dans La squaw blanche d’Emma Morrier

Sathya Rao and Héloïse Torck
A pioneer of western Canadian francophone literature, Marie-Joséphine Emma Morrier (née Gravel) was the author of a number of plays, of which the most famous is undoubtedly Bon Sang Ne Ment Pas, which was selected to represent Alberta on the occasion of the 3rd Dominion Drama Festival in Ottawa in 1935. Under the pseudonym of Madrina, Morrier also signed a large number of editorials in Le patriote de l’Ouest and in La survivance. A less well-known fact is that Morrier also wrote a novel. Towards the end of her life, she composed a serialised novel entitled La squaw blanche that was published in the women’s section of Droit and then in La survivance. As far as can be ascertained, this biographical novel has never been the object of critical study. The purpose of this article will be to rectify this absence in proposing an analysis of the novel which is attentive both to the question of genre and the representation of femininity that it proposes. Particular attention will be paid to the transgressive nature of this travel narrative that depicts a feminine protagonist.

Topographie de l’altérité dans Un Vent prodigue de Simone Chaput

Anne Sechin and Étienne Rivard
In Simone Chaput’s novel of 2013, Un vent prodigue, the character Adrienne is of an ethnolinguist who leaves for Northern Canada to study an Indigenous tribe whose language threatened with extinction has not yet been studied. The textual representation is of Northern Canada and the location of the tribe in question is of interest because Adrienne reproduces, from her perspective as a Western anthropologist, a mythicized vision of Indigenous peoples who take on the attributes of “noble savages” in a paradise lost that could have the potential to return the West to its original purity. Michel de Certeau’s notion of “heterology” will guide the reading of this search for “a place of the Other” and the attempt to map a space that is fictional and, ultimately, mythicized and highly poetic.

La figure du chasseur dans les contes populaires du Missouri et du Canada : un creuset culturel uniquement franco-américain

Michael Mulryan and Brian Hawkins
Missouri French is a dialect that was spoken in the Ozarks from the eighteenth century until as recently as the 1990s. That the culture of this francophone microcosm was not extinguished earlier was largely due to the isolation of a few hundred families of lead miners. The work of various scholars has assured the survival of the cultural production of the francophones of Missouri, although there remain audio recordings of folk tales that have not yet been transcribed. The Missouri hunting tales, in particular those that reproduce a version of the “Flying Canoe,” are particularly interesting because, while native to the culture, they use various narrative features from other cultures (European, Indigenous and Canadian). Whether due to the search for game (and thus of survival) or for love (and thus for the survival of future generations), the fantastic is very present in Franco-American folk tales dealing with the topic of the hunter seeking success. This article explores the parallels to this theme in several popular tales of the American Midwest and Lower Canada.

Les images dans l’hebdomadaire Le Franco-Albertain [1967-1978] : révélatrices d’un changement radical par rapport à son prédécesseur, La Survivance [1928-67]

Chris Reyns-Chikuma
La survivance, the only francophone weekly published in Alberta since 1928, ceased publication on November 7 1967 to give way to Le Franco-Albertain (LFA). The change to the title and, in part, the managing team was also accompanied by a relatively radical change to the new journal’s “policy” to become less conservative and more participative. To show these changes, this article will concentrate on the publication’s hand-drawn images (in particular the comics). The corpus covers a little over 10 years, from mid-November 1967 to February 1979. From thousands of pages, 1,500 images were collected. Prior to analysing this corpus, however, the article concentrates on the 1960s which favoured and explain these changes. This general context includes the liberalisation of norms and of consumption, the competition from other forms of media – radio and television – that influenced advertising revenues and, in particular for the Catholics who still constituted the majority of Franco-Albertans, secularisation and the impact of Vatican II. All of these developments encouraged management to attempt to gain the participation of readers by the use of headlines, comics (e.g. whodunnits) as well as interactive images (games) albeit to limited success.

Francophonie contestée et enjeux d’appartenance : francophones d’ici et d’ailleurs

Nathalie Piquemal, Anne-Cécile Delaisse, Leyla Sall, Suzanne Huot and Faiçal Zellama
By means of a qualitative approach based on semi-structured interviews in British Columbia, Manitoba and New Brunswick, this article examines the racial, linguistic, cultural and economic differences between the country’s francophone minority communities (CFSM, communautés francophones en situation minoritaire) and the immigrant francophones with whom they are expected to form a society. This article draws on the different forms of capital in Yosso’s model of community cultural wealth to explore the differences experienced as well as the anti-hegemonic strategies developed by the participants to create micro-spaces of belonging. An analysis of the data reveals that between inclusion and exclusion, integration and marginalization, there are gradations extending from the privileges of whiteness that benefit European immigrants to the cosmopolitanism of some and to the multidimensional dissonances experienced by immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa. Results of the analysis demonstrate the various anti-hegemonic strategies of the immigrants. Some remain within the CFSM, but deploy alternative narratives to redefine their place within these communities. Others emancipate themselves from the CFSM and create spaces of belonging within the anglophone community or within their own ethno-cultural communities.

Familles alliées autour de Louis Riel : une solution à la question Jolicoeur

Pierre Gendreau-Hétu

Édouard Préfontaine (1900 -1993) : un ancien du Collège de Saint-Boniface, médecin en Caroline du Nord

Bernard Mulaire

Le Saint-Hubert de la duchesse d’Uzès : une sculpture académique française de la fin du XIXe siècle à Saint-Boniface

Bernard Mulaire

Sphinx sibyllin

Denis Combet

FRENETTE, Yves, Marc ST-HILAIRE et Marie-Ève HARTON (dir.) (2023) Déploiements canadiens-français et métis en Amérique du Nord (18e-20e siècle), Ottawa, Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa (série « Mercure »), 330 p.

Liliane Rodriguez

O’REILLY, AMBER (2023) Annie et Tom du lundi au vendredi, Saint-Boniface, Les Éditions du Blé, 92 p.

Jean Valenti

BAUDEMONT, David (2023) Derrière chaque horizon, Saint-Boniface, Éditions du Blé, 64 p.

J.R. Léveillé

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