Nationalism And The Politics Of Culture In Quebec

Author : Richard Handler
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0299115143

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Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec by Richard Handler Pdf

Richard Handler's pathbreaking study of nationalistic politics in Quebec is a striking and successful example of the new experimental type of ethnography, interdisciplinary in nature and intensively concerned with rhetoric and not only of anthropologists but also of scholars in a wide range of fields, and it is likely to stir sharp controversy. Bringing together methodologies of history, sociology, political science, and philosophy, as well as anthropology, Handler centers on the period 1976-1984, during which the independantiste Parti Québéois was in control of the provincial government and nationalistic sentiment was especially strong. Handler draws on historical and archival research, and on interviews with Quebec and Canadian government officials, as he addresses the central question: Given the similarities between the epistemologies of both anthropology and nationalist ideology, how can one write an ethnography of nationalism that does not simply reproduce--and thereby endorse--nationalistic beliefs? Handler analyzes various responses to the nationalist vision of a threatened existence. He examines cultural tourism, ideology of the Quebec government, legislations concerning historical preservation, language legislation and policies towards immigrants and "cultural minorities." He concludes with a thoughtful meditation on the futility of nationalisms.

Author : Dominique Clift
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 0773503838

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Quebec Nationalism in Crisis by Dominique Clift Pdf

First published in French in 1981 under the title Le declin du nationalisme au Québec, this classic has received considerable critical acclaim. Graham Fraser of the Montreal Gazette wrote, "a suberb book: provocative, ironic, stimulating, and analytical, with a sharp eye for the social meaning of public events. Clift covered Quebec politics as a daily journalist for almost 25 years. He has succeeded in sweeping across events he covered to reduce them to their most substantial conflict." Dominique Clift's perceptive analysis traces two antagonistic trends in recent Quebec history: the growth of nationalism, which reached its high point with the election of René Lévesque in 1967, and the development of individualism at the expense of group solidarity.

Author : Sarah M. Corse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521579120

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Nationalism and Literature by Sarah M. Corse Pdf

Sarah Corse's analysis of nearly two hundred American and Canadian novels offers a theory of national literatures. Demonstrating that national canon formation occurs in tandem with nation-building, and that canonical novels play a symbolic role in this, this 1996 book accounts for cross-national literary differences, addresses issues of mediation and representation in theories of 'reflection', and illuminates the historically constructed nature of the relationship between literature and the nation-state.

Author : Olivar Asselin
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022172352

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A Quebec View of Canadian Nationalism by Olivar Asselin Pdf

Written by a leading French-Canadian writer and journalist, this essay provides a powerful and thought-provoking critique of Canadian nationalism from a Quebecois perspective. With insights into the political, cultural, and historical factors that have shaped Quebec's unique identity, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in Canadian history and politics. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Joseph H. Carens
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0773513426

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Is Quebec Nationalism Just? by Joseph H. Carens Pdf

In Is Quebec Nationalism Just? contributors explore Quebec's relationship with the rest of Canada from a normative perspective. The case of Quebec is interesting, both politically and philosophically, because it epitomizes the puzzle of liberal nationalism. While nationalism is often assumed to be inherently illiberal and regressive, the authors of these essays argue that Quebecers' desire to control their own political destiny is not fuelled by hostility to liberalism. On the contrary, they conclude that Quebecers are at least as deeply committed to liberal values, institutions, and practices as people in the rest of Canada.

Author : Victor Teboul, Ph. D.
Publisher : Tolerance.ca Publications
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9782981514103

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ESSAYS ON QUEBEC NATIONALISM AND THE JEWS (1976 – 1985) by Victor Teboul, Ph. D. Pdf

About this Book In 1976, the nationalist Parti Québécois came to power in Quebec and governed the province until 1985. A tense period followed its election within business circles and among the Jewish community. In the midst of this crisis, Victor Teboul’s Mythe et images du Juif au Québec had just been published and it exposed a negative portrayal of Jews in Quebec’s most well-read novels and history books. The book had a strong impact on the Jewish leadership and created some controversy among Quebec’s francophone intellectual elite. In his provocative Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!, published in 1992, Mordecai Richler drew extensively from Victor Teboul's Mythe et images du Juif au Québec.

Author : Kenneth McRoberts
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780773513013

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Beyond Quebec by Kenneth McRoberts Pdf

What kind of a country is Canada beyond Quebec? With a referendum on Quebec sovereignty looming on the horizon, this is a question Canadians are being forced to ask. In Beyond Quebec scholars from a wide variety of disciplines examine the current political, cultural, economic, and social situation of Canada outside Quebec and speculate on the nature of a Canada that does not include Quebec on the present terms.

Author : Jocelyn Maclure
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 077352598X

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Quebec Identity by Jocelyn Maclure Pdf

In Quebec Identity Jocelyn Maclure provides a critical reflection on the ways in which Quebec's identity has been articulated since the 1960s' Quiet Revolution. He shows how neither the melancholic nationalism of the Montreal school, Hubert Aquin, Pierre Vallières, Fernand Dumont and their followers, nor the individualist antinationalism of Pierre Trudeau and his followers provide identity stories and political projects adequate for contemporary Quebec. In articulating an alternative narrative Maclure reframes the debate, detaching the question of Quebec's identity from the question of sovereignty versus federalism and linking it closely to Quebec's cultural diversity and to the consolidation of its democratic sphere. In so doing, he rethinks the conditions of authenticity, leaves space for First Nations' self-determination and takes account of globalization. This edition has been expanded for English-Canadians with additional references as well as a glossary of names, institutions, and concepts.

Author : Donald R. Krueger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Nationalism
ISBN : OCLC:317639570

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Quebec Politics in Historical and Cultural Perspective by Donald R. Krueger Pdf

Author : David Chennells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0802042244

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The Politics of Nationalism in Canada by David Chennells Pdf

David Chennells offers a provocative assessment of two hundred and forty years of nationalism in Canada, focusing on the evolution of the political process and the balance of power between state elites and ordinary citizens.

Author : Ramsay Cook
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Canada
ISBN : UVA:X001147290

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Canada, Quebec, and the Uses of Nationalism by Ramsay Cook Pdf

Author : Eva Mackey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134676026

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House of Difference by Eva Mackey Pdf

Mapping the contradictions and ambiguities in the cultural politics of Canadian identity, The House of Difference opens up new understandings of the operations of tolerance and Western liberalism in a supposedly post-colonial era. Combining an analysis of the construction of national identity in both past and present-day public culture, with interviews with white Canadians, The House of Difference explores how ideas of racial and cultural difference are articulated in colonial and national projects, and in the subjectivities of people who consider themselves mainstream, or simply Canadian-Canadians.

Author : Geneviève Zubrzycki
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226391687

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Beheading the Saint by Geneviève Zubrzycki Pdf

The province of Quebec used to be called the "priest-ridden province” by its Protestant neighbors in Canada. During the 1960s, Quebec became radically secular, directly leading to its evolution as a welfare state with lay social services. What happened to cause this abrupt change? Genevieve Zubrzycki gives us an elegant and penetrating history, showing that a key incident sets up the transformation. Saint John the Baptist is the patron saint of French Canadians, and, until 1969, was subject of annual celebrations with a parade in Montreal. That year, the statue of St. John was toppled by protestors, breaking off the head from the body. Here, then is the proximate cause: the beheading of a saint, a symbolic death to be sure, which caused the parades to disappear and other modes of national celebration to take their place. The beheading of the saint was part and parcel of the so-called Quiet Revolution, a period of far-reaching social, economic, political, and cultural transformations. Quebec society and the identity of its French-speaking members drastically reinvented themselves with the rejection of Catholicism. Zubrzycki is already acknowledged as a leading authority on nationalism and religion; this book will significantly enlarge her stature by showing the extent to which a core feature of the Quiet Revolution was an aesthetic revolt. A new generation rejected the symbols of French Canada, redefining national identity in the process (and as a process) and providing momentum for institutional reforms. We learn that symbols have causal force, generating "chains of significations” which can transform a Catholic-dominated conservative society into a leftist, forward-looking, secular society.

Author : Crean, Susan,Rioux, Marcel
Publisher : Lorimer
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008684105

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Two Nations by Crean, Susan,Rioux, Marcel Pdf

Two Nations is the product of an unusual and very fruitful collaboration between two writers: one, a young anglophone critic who has been active in cultural affairs in Canada for more than a decade; the other, a distinguished Quebec scholar and historical. Together, they address questions about the survival of the English-Canadian and Quebec society and culture which are usually discussed in isolation by each perspective on this important subject.

Author : Ailsa Henderson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773560475

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Hierarchies of Belonging by Ailsa Henderson Pdf

Nationalism has long been a potent political force in Scotland and Quebec. Hierarchies of Belonging explores the construction of national identity and nationalism and its effect on how citizens of Scotland and Quebec understand their relationship to the nation and the state.