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- Title
Les tourments d'une mère-épouse-ménagère dans La saison de l'inconfort de Paule Saint-Onge.
- Authors
Beaulieu, Caroline
- Abstract
La saison de l'inconfort , published in 1968, is Paule Saint-Onge's third novel. This work reflects the literary prefeminism of 1960s Québec, because we find within the novel the key elements of this movement – a female subject who tries to find her legitimacy by denouncing the patriarchal oppression on all types of relationships in the novel: family and marital relationships and the most intimate relationship of all, that with oneself. Paule Saint-Onge uses the format of the intimate diary, which allows the narrator, Odile, to exteriorize all her discomfort caused by the external pressures she is subjected to. This article first studies Odile's family and marital relationship, both of which have been analyzed by Boisclair (2004), Brown (1992), and Gaudreau (1984), among others. However, the second part of the article, devoted to the narrator's relationship to herself and to the female filiations in the novel, has been studied very little so far. The article analyzes the desires of the narrator in relation to her own future. Futhermore, we look at the influence of the female characters on the destiny of the narrator. Thus, we can better understand the contributions of literary prefeminism to Quebec literature.
- Subjects
FEMINISM; PATRIARCHY; FRENCH-Canadian literature; LEGITIMACY of governments; CONSENSUS (Social sciences); SOVEREIGNTY
- Publication
Quebec Studies, 2022, Vol 74, Issue 1, p35
- ISSN
0737-3759
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3828/qs.2022.14