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- Title
Violences rhétoriques et scènes de conflit chez Mordecai Richler et David Homel.
- Authors
Lapointe, Martine-Emmanuelle
- Abstract
Studying areas of tension within Quebec literature would, in the view of a number of researchers, shed light on some "conflicting loyalties" and thereby pose the "question of markers, foundations, common spaces, and places of statement that bind us to one universe of discourse more than another" [translation] (Harel 2008, 52). Numerous works on English-language Quebec literature have explored these "conflicting loyalties" in a theoretical manner, attempting to redefine the outlines of the traditional Quebec novel. This involved rethinking the framework—historical, linguistic, territorial, and heuristic—and internal boundaries of a vast body of work as a first step before the works of Anglo-Quebeckers could, in the strictest sense of the word, be read. In response to previously published institutional analyses, this article proposes a micro-analysis of two scenes of conflict drawn from the works of Mordecai Richler and David Homel. Both scenes involve stories of vengeance, with each referring, in its own way, to the story of the Jewish diaspora. They also bear a certain relationship to the concept of "exemplary memory" as defined by Tzvetan Todorov in The Abuse of Memory.
- Subjects
SOLOMON Gursky Was Here (Book); MIDWAY (Book); RICHLER, Mordecai, 1931-2001; HOMEL, David; CULTURE conflict in literature; REVENGE in literature; JEWISH diaspora in literature; TODOROV, Tzvetan, 1939-2017
- Publication
Journal of Canadian Studies, 2012, Vol 46, Issue 3, p242
- ISSN
0021-9495
- Publication type
Literary Criticism