Aurélien Boivin, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Jacques Walter (dir.), Régionalismes littéraires et artistiques comparés Québec/Canada – Europe, numéro spécial de la revue Questions de communications, série « Actes », 22, Nancy, Éditions universitaires de Lorraine, 2014, 308 p (original) (raw)

Filiations et régionalité dans trois fictions québécoises contemporaines

Zuzana Malinovska, Sylviane Alice Coyault et Francis Langevin (dir.), Histoires de familles et de territoires (Acta Facultatis Philosophicae Universitatis Prešoviensis; Literárnovedný zborník 42), 2012

This paper shows and analyzes how the question of family, literary and national heritage are related to regional place in three Québécois contemporary short stories (La Héronnière, by Lise Tremblay) and short stories novels (Arvida, by Samuel Archibald and Atavismes, by Raymond Bock). The author argues that place and heritage are strongly knitted in these fictions : in La Héronnière, rural characters fear that neo-rural and urban aliens are taking away women with their feminine manners and values; in Arvida, the narrator-author finds a way to invent a heritage for his native industrial small-town, an action of telling that at the same time allows him to enter Literature and Memory; in Atavismes, collective inheritances are at stake for the 13 male characters who fight for (or against) memory.