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- Title
« Sacrifier à l'invisible »: L'héroïsme au féminin dans les romans de Laure Conan.
- Authors
Auger, Manon
- Abstract
In this article, I propose to reread the entirety of Laure Conan's novels to see if a certain global poetics emerges, a "Conan style," if you will, which would go beyond Angéline de Montbrun (1882), and which would transcend the traditional division between so-called psychological novels on the one hand and so-called historical novels on the other. More specifically, I hypothesize that not only are Conan's novels linked by a desire to "bring women into history" (Roy 2006, 36), but also by a desire to inscribe the feminine in the "his-story" of the French-Canadian novel. With this in mind, I first examine the place of female characters in relation to male characters in the narrative economy of the works, to then focus on the themes addressed, centered on the moral torments of heroines. I conclude that the works of Conan seek to highlight the spiritual heroism of women, more discreet, more intimate, but involve just as much, if not more, suffering than that of men, a heroism in which only religion constitutes an exit, at the same time as it is the impediment to real fulfilment.
- Subjects
CONAN, Laure, 1845-1924; FEMININE identity; COURAGE; FRENCH-Canadian literature; RELIGION
- Publication
Quebec Studies, 2022, Vol 74, Issue 1, p95
- ISSN
0737-3759
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3828/qs.2022.17