We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
DIRE LA BANLIEUE EN LITTÉRATURE QUÉBÉCOISE. LA SŒUR DE JUDITH DE LISE TREMBLAY ET LE CIEL DE BAY CITY DE CATHERINE MAVRIKAKIS.
- Authors
LAFOREST, DANIEL
- Abstract
Suburbia is a blind spot in the historiography of Quebec's literature, as well as in the related critical approaches. That is not to say writers are not representing it; actually, they have been increasingly doing so with the coming of age of a generation that lived through its canonical postwar forms. But there is no distinct problem pertaining to suburbia. It is conceived either as a caricatural setting for the critique of North-American middle-class conformity, or as a negligible area of urban space overshadowed by the vibrancy, the modernism and the cosmopolitanism more traditionally associated with the central city in literature. In this regard, Quebec literary studies have a lot to catch up with the reality of peripheral urban development since 1945. This article wishes to point the way through a reading of two important novels published recently: La soeur de Judith by Lise Tremblay and Le ciel de Bay City by Catherine Mavrikakis. Both novels refuse to represent suburbia as a mere background. They rather show a new desire to give a literary representation to the very experience of peripheral urban development.
- Subjects
LA soeur de Judith (Book); LE ciel de Bay City (Book); TREMBLAY, Lise; MAVRIKAKIS, Catherine; SUBURBS in literature; FRENCH-Canadian fiction
- Publication
Globe: Revue Internationale d'Études Québécoises, 2010, Vol 13, Issue 1, p147
- ISSN
1481-5869
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.7202/044643ar