scholarly journals L’image de la maison qui brûle : figures du temps dans quelques romans d’expression française du Canada

1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Morency
Keyword(s):  
Time History ◽  
French Canadian ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Lionel Groulx

Cet article aborde la question du rapport à l’altérité dans les romans d’expression française à partir de l’étude d’une image récurrente, celle de la maison qui brûle. Cette image, qui apparaît déjà en filigrane dans Au Cap Blomidon (1932) de Lionel Groulx, joue en effet un rôle central dans des romans comme Histoire de la maison qui brûle (1985) de France Daigle, L’Obomsawin (1987) de Daniel Poliquin, Un vent se lève qui éparpille (1999) de Jean Marc Dalpé et Le Coulonneux (1998) de Simone Chaput. L’analyse de l’image de la maison qui brûle permet de dégager comment se manifeste, dans tous ces romans, le rapport particulier qui est entretenu avec le temps, l’histoire et la mémoire, ainsi qu’avec l’altérité anglo-américaine. Ce rapport exprime bien la fragilité extrême des communautés francophones du Canada, que ce soit en Acadie, en Ontario ou au Manitoba. Abstract This paper addresses the question of the relation to otherness in French Canadian novels by examining the recurring image of the burning house. This image, which appears as early as in Lionel Groulx’s Au Cap Blomidon (1932), indeed plays a central role in novels like Histoire de la maison qui brûle (1985) by France Daigle, L’Obomsawin (1987) by Daniel Poliquin, Un vent se lève qui éparpille (1999) by Jean Marc Dalpé, and Le Coulonneux (1998) by Simone Chaput. The analysis of the burning house image helps to understand how the particular relation to time, history and memory as well as to the Anglo-American Other takes form in all these novels. This relation expresses well the extreme fragility of Francophone communities in Canada, whether those in Acadie, in Ontario or in Manitoba.

Time, history and memory

2021 ◽  
pp. 199-221
Author(s):  
Oliver J.T. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Time History ◽  
History And Memory

The Pseudo-Indian Folksongs of the Anglo-American and French-Canadian

1954 ◽  
Vol 67 (265) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
Austin E. Fife ◽  
Francesca Redden
Keyword(s):  
French Canadian ◽  
Anglo American

The First French-Canadian National Parks: Kouchibouguac and Forillon in History and Memory

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Rudin
Keyword(s):  
New Brunswick ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
French Canadian ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Resident Population ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
The Creation

Until the mid-1970s, the creation of a national park in Canada meant the removal of the resident population whose presence was viewed as incompatible with the preservation of nature and its presentation to visitors. Like other high-modernist schemes of the time, park projects were conceived by agents of the state whose knowledge trumped that of the people on the ground whose lives were viewed as worthless. The first nineteen of Canada’s national parks were created in areas populated predominately by English-speakers so that it was only with the creation of Kouchibouguac National Park in New Brunswick in late 1969 and Forillon National Park in Quebec eight months later that French-speakers bore the brunt of forced removal. This essay explores the dynamics regarding the creation of the first two French-Canadian national parks, both of which emerged in the midst of révolutions tranquilles, one acadienne and the other québécoise. This context shaped both the process that led to the development of the parks and to the very different ways that they have been remembered over the past forty years.

The Pseudo-Indian Folksongs of the Anglo-American and French-Canadian

1954 ◽  
Vol 67 (266) ◽  
pp. 379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Austin E. Fife ◽  
Francesca Redden
Keyword(s):  
French Canadian ◽  
Anglo American

scholarly journals Ruin and Organization Studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian De Cock ◽  
Damian O’Doherty
Keyword(s):  
Time History ◽  
The Self ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Cordon Sanitaire ◽  
Ability And Willingness

In this paper we offer a preliminary study of the various ways in which ‘ruin’ has significance for organization studies. One important motif associated with both modern and romantic treatments of ruins concerns the revelatory impressions they make. In this respect the tradition of ruin writing will talk of their ‘beauty’, their ‘strangeness’ or their capacity to ‘intimidate’, which somehow never fails to strike a responsive nerve in us. In order to attend to this elusive phenomenon we must necessarily breach some of the self-imposed boundaries of our ‘discipline’. Taking up this challenge we follow W. G. Sebald in his use of contiguity as both method and textual structuring device, allowing us to drift across iconic ruin images, ruin theories and our own ruinous research experiences. This helps us learn how to ‘dwell’ in the ruin – without any impatient reaching after fact or explaining away ruins in the terms of an established tradition of theorizing in organization – and open up new analytic spaces and associations for organizational researchers. These concern specifically (a) a distinctive approach to time, history and memory; (b) an increased awareness of the multiplicity of forces impinging on organization, forces from which we so easily retreat behind the cordon sanitaire of organization-studies-as-usual; and (c) a cognisance of how the very way we write is a mode of doing organization that is crucial for our ability and willingness to look into ‘all corners of reality’ so that we might better grasp organizational phenomena.

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