Indigenous and Transcultural Narratives in Québec

This book focuses on modes of cultural belonging in Québec. 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 Québec, 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 Québécois, especially after Bill 21, and the thorny question of integration of immigrants, discussed in relation to Akos Verboczy's Rhapsodie québécoise. As with the companion volume on France, societal factors are discussed, here relating to the cultural renaissance of Indigenous writing, Farhoud's Libano-Québécois context, and language laws in Québec, including the foundational Bill 101 and the more recent Bill 96.

Centres on four adult creative practitioners from Indigenous and other minority ethnic or cultural groups in Québec Combines close textual analysis of literature and artistic production with perspectives on societal issues Discusses questions of testimony, self-determination and reinvention, and cross-cultural connection

Autorentext

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, Québec and Ireland (2016), and of Modiano et l'image (2012).

Inhalt

1. WAYS OF BELONGING.- 2. NAOMI FONTAINE'S INDIGENOUS WRTING: SELF, COMMUNITY, SOCIETY.- 3. ABLA FARHOUD: MONTREAL MIGRATIONS AND THE GHOST OF LEBANON.- 4. ANITA ALOISIO AND AKOS VERBOCZY: CHILDREN OF LA LOI 101.- 5 CONCLUSION: INSCRIBING HOME IN QUÉBEC