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- Title
Language Dichotomy in Contemporary Montreal.
- Authors
RUDIG, STEFANIE
- Abstract
Following a history of francophone conquest, defeat and reconquest, Quebec's two major linguistic communities increasingly interact with one another in the post-Bill 101 and post-referenda period. Writers have always engaged in and contributed to the debate. But how does literature make present-day society 'speak,' now that the most turbulent times of Québécois history appear to have calmed down, and that the major literary voices of that era - Gabrielle Roy, Hubert Aquin and Mordecai Richler, to name just a few - have largely passed on? Monique Proulx and Neil Bissoondath, two authors presently living and writing in Quebec, have scrutinized interactions between anglophones and francophones in present-day Montreal in their works of narrative fiction. Their texts reflect some of the positive changes that have taken place in Montreal in recent years.
- Subjects
QUEBEC (Province); CHARTE de la langue francaise (Quebec); FRENCH language; LITERATURE &; society; FRENCH-Canadian literature; FRENCH-Canadian fiction; PROULX, Monique, 1952-; BISSOONDATH, Neil; CANADIAN languages
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien, 2014, Vol 34, Issue 1, p105
- ISSN
0944-7008
- Publication type
Article