Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Between Languages and Cultures : Colonial and Postcolonial Readings of Gabrielle Roy
Published McGill-Queen's University Press 2009

Copies

Description 1 online resource (320)
Contents Cover13; -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Power Relations in Roys Manitoba -- 1 The Ambivalences of Learning to Be Canadian -- 2 Colonial Legacies and the Clandestine Curriculum -- 3 Bilingualism, Diglossia, and the Others Language -- 4 Translating Difference: Conveying Context -- 5 Writing Canada: Finding a Place Between -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
Summary Gabrielle Roy is one of the best-known figures of Québec literature, yet she spent much of the first thirty years of her life studying, working, and living in English. For Roy, as a member of Manitoba's francophone minority, bilingualism was a necessary strategy for survival and success. How did this bilingual and bicultural background help shape her work as a writer in French? The implications of her linguistic and cultural identity are explored in chapters looking at education, language, translation, and the representation of Canada's other minorities, from the immigrants in Western Canada to the Inuit of Ungava. What emerges is a new reading of Roy's work
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Roy, Gabrielle, 1909-1983 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Roy, Gabrielle, 1909-1983 fast
Subject Biculturalism in literature.
Bilingualism and literature.
Culture conflict in literature.
Culture shock in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Canadian.
Culture shock in literature
Biculturalism in literature
Bilingualism and literature
Culture conflict in literature
Literature
SUBJECT Canada -- In literature
Subject Canada
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012374370
ISBN 9780773575806
0773575804
1282866273
9781282866270
9786612866272
6612866276