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- Title
L'émergence des formes de la «vie de banlieue» en région dans La Soeur de Judith de Lise Tremblay.
- Authors
DION, ROBERT
- Abstract
Suburbs, and the subculture that arises from them, are usually associated with the periphery of large cities. However, the reality of Quebec's "regions" is more a case of suburbs without a city core. Chicoutimi or Rimouski are examples of such cities whose centre has little weight in relation to a suburban type of town planning, one that is indifferent to local and regional specificities. These communities unstructured by the opposition between a historic core functioning as a cultural and social marker and a bedroom periphery seem to have been especially permeable to a form of mass popular culture. This phenomenon of acculturation is analyzed in La Soeur de Judith (2007) by Lise Tremblay, who depicts the changes brought by the Quiet Revolution to a quasi-rural environment that structured itself as a suburb in which, to quote the words used by Gertrude Stein, "there is no there there". Under the gaze of the narrator, a cultural syncretism emerges in which the world of Catholic schools and farm country roads comes into collision with the world of pop singers and gogo dancing. Behind this narrator, one senses the author keenly observing a childhood and youth similar to hers. This is the immanent sociology of regional suburbs that I brought out in Tremblay's novel, disclosing a suburban subculture that continues to appear in various successful contemporary works.
- Subjects
CHICOUTIMI (Saguenay, Quebec); LA soeur de Judith (Book); TREMBLAY, Lise; SUBURBS; ACCULTURATION in literature; 21ST century French-Canadian fiction; FRENCH-Canadian literature; LITERARY criticism; CANADIAN literature
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien, 2018, Vol 38, Issue 2, p90
- ISSN
0944-7008
- Publication type
Literary Criticism