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- Title
« Je marche avec des bottines rouges »: Trajectoires féministes et politiques dans Les remparts de Québec d'Andrée Maillet.
- Authors
Sévigny, Marie-Ève
- Abstract
This article treats Les remparts de Québec (1965) as a hinge work of the Quiet Revolution, its reception hampered by the biased readings of its immediate critics, resulting in its status as a forgotten work. Andrée Maillet's novel, all the while following the oppositional and transgressive tendencies of the period, is noteworthy because it proposes a national feminist novel, in which the figure of the young girl claims the right to exist, as much for herself as for the nation of Québec. Through the revolt of its protagonist Arabelle against her alienation by her conservative, bourgeois family, the representation of Québec City illustrates the patriarchal system's abuses of power. The carnal trajectories of the wanderer (flaneuse) Arabella stand in opposition to the granite-like immobility of the father. At a moment when male poets and novelists exalt the ideal of the woman-nation (femme-pays), to whom they address their desire for national emancipation, Maillet makes of this figure a veritable heroine who articulates herself the independence of which she becomes a figurehead. In so doing, feminist writing claims a universal progress for women as for all other types of citizens.
- Subjects
LES Remparts de Queebec (Book); QUIET Revolution, Quebec (Province), 1960-1980; MAILLET, Andree; FEMINISTS; FEMINISM
- Publication
Quebec Studies, 2022, Vol 74, Issue 1, p11
- ISSN
0737-3759
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3828/qs.2022.13