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{"title":"Indigenous social justice movements and the anti-modern: Theresa Spence, the De Beers Victor Mine, and the Indigenous body","authors":"M. Fortin","doi":"10.3828/bjcs.2022.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2022.3","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article looks at the events surrounding Theresa Spence's hunger strike in 2012 in order to explore the ideological and epistemological impacts of Indigenous bodies as they are situated within both mediated and real colonial spaces. In considering the violent reactions to Indigenous social justice movements by settler Canadians, I argue that Indigenous peoples in Canada are at the forefront of radical change in Canadian politics, but that due to the legacy of colonial erasure, anthropological discourse, and media representations, Indigenous activists also risk great physical and psychological harm in placing their bodies at the forefront of environmental, social, and political movements to decolonise Turtle Island. Theresa Spence's experience offers a window into the roots of both historical and contemporary practices of colonisation, and the ways in which the colonial narrative has shifted towards paternalistic, neoliberal, and capitalist discourses of care. Considering the connection between Spence and the Victor diamond mine, this article considers the implications of settler discourse on neocolonialism in Canada and the need to alter systemic racist structures in order to decolonise the nation.Abstract:Cet article examine les événements entourant la grève de faim de Theresa Spence en 2012 afin d'explorer les impacts idéologiques et épistémologiques des corps autochtones tels qu'ils sont situés dans des espaces coloniaux médiatisés et réels. En considérant les réactions violentes aux mouvements autochtones de justice sociale par les colons canadiens, je soutiens que les peuples autochtones au Canada sont à l'avant-garde du changement radical dans la politique canadienne. Cependant, en raison de l'héritage de l'effacement colonial, du discours anthropologique et des représentations médiatiques, les peuples autochtones militants risquent également de grands dommages physiques et psychologiques en plaçant leur corps au premier plan des mouvements environnementaux, sociaux et politiques pour décoloniser l'île de la Tortue. L'expérience de Theresa Spence offre une perspective sur les origines des pratiques historiques et contemporaines de la colonisation, et sur la manière dont le récit colonial s'est déplacé vers des discours paternalistes, néolibéraux et capitalistes du 'care'. Considérant le lien entre Spence et la mine de diamants Victor, cet article examine les implications du discours des colons sur le néocolonialisme au Canada et la nécessité de modifier les structures racistes systémiques afin de décoloniser la nation.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47980530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Last Days of Okak: filming Inuit loss in Northern Labrador","authors":"Caitlin Hanrahan","doi":"10.3828/bjcs.2022.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2022.1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Last Days of Okak, a short film released in 1985, tells the story of the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic's devastating impact on a Labrador Inuit community founded by Moravian missionaries. With an extremely high death rate, Okak was abandoned soon after the epidemic. This article explores the film as both public education and commemoration, and discerns the film's political meaning, set as it is in an ongoing colonial context: that of the Inuit in what is now Canada. The filmmakers use narrative and visual techniques that effectively commemorate the large number of deceased and the survivors, a few of whom appear on screen. The film represents a departure from approaches often seen in Arctic films in that it de-romanticises the Inuit. It is also political in that it quietly and continually links the interrupted Inuit past and the emotional geographies of the Inuit present.Abstract:The Last Days of Okak, un court métrage sorti en 1985, raconte l'impact dévastateur de l'épidémie de grippe espagnole de 1918 sur un village Inuit du Labrador fondé par des missionnaires moraves. À cause d'un taux de mortalité extrêmement élevé, Okak a été abandonné. Cet article explore le film à la fois comme une éducation publique et comme une commémoration, et discerne l'importance politique du film, qui se déroule dans un contexte colonial en cours : celui des Inuits dans ce qui est maintenant le Canada. Les cinéastes utilisent des techniques narratives et visuelles qui commémorent efficacement le grand nombre de morts et de survivants, dont quelques-uns apparaissent à l'écran. Le film se démarque des approches souvent vues dans les films arctiques en ce sens qu'il n'idéalise pas les Inuits. Il est également politique en ce sens qu'il relie discrètement et continuellement le passé Inuit interrompu et les géographies émotionnelles du présent Inuit.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46321005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Québec from without and from within / Le Québec de l'éxtérieur et de l'intérieur","authors":"R. Killick, M. Prévost","doi":"10.3828/bjcs.2021.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2021.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46059064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Le Canadien français d'Horace Mitchell Miner dans St. Denis: A French-Canadian Parish","authors":"F. Boucher","doi":"10.3828/bjcs.2021.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2021.12","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:L'universitaire américain Horace Mitchell Miner qui publie en 1939, aux Presses de l'Université de Chicago, St. Denis: A French-Canadian Parish, propose une étude sur les moeurs des Canadiens français de manière à expliquer les forces qui président aux mutations que connaissent les sociétés. Miner inscrit son analyse dans les débats qui existent alors aux États-Unis concernant la nature des conséquences que provoquent le développement industriel sur les interactions humaines. Le passage d'une communauté paysanne à une société beaucoup plus complexe produirait une série de modifications significatives sur les rapports sociaux. En tant que dernier village paysan de l'Amérique du Nord, comme l'écrit Miner dans son étude, l'analyse de la communauté canadienne-française permet de faire le portrait d'un univers archaïque en voie de disparition. Cet article cherche à comprendre la manière dont Miner rend compte des moeurs des Canadiens français et pourquoi ils sont perçus comme fondamentalement en marge de la norme américaine.Abstract:The American scholar Horace Mitchell Miner, who published St. Denis: A French-Canadian Parish with University of Chicago Press in 1939, offers a study on the mores of French Canadians in order to explain the forces that govern social change. Miner inscribed his analysis in the current American debates concerning the consequences of industrial development on human interactions, according to which the transition from a peasant community to a more complex form of society would produce a series of significant changes in social relations. As the 'last peasant village in North America', this French-Canadian community allows him to portray an archaic universe in the process of disappearing. The article seeks to understand how Miner accounts for the mores of French Canadians and why they are seen as fundamentally outside the American norm.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49319980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Québec's new regional fiction: Louise Penny and Johanne Seymour","authors":"Ceri Morgan","doi":"10.3828/bjcs.2021.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2021.15","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Louise Penny's Still Life (2005) and Johanne Seymour's Le Cri du cerf (2005) are both murder mysteries set in the Eastern Townships, in south-eastern and south-central Québec. Much of the region borders the United States. To varying degrees, the border makes its presence felt in the novels by Penny and Seymour, along with other landmarks familiar to domestic audiences. This article argues that the apparent situatedness of the texts is, however, challenged by their adherence to the formal conventions of the murder mystery and associated subgenres. In so doing, it claims that Still Life and Le Cri du cerf foster multi-layered readings which, in bringing together the hyper-local and the international, prompt a reconsideration of understandings of regional fiction.Abstract:L'action des romans policiers, Still Life (2005) de Louise Penny et Le Cri du cerf (2005) de Johanne Seymour se situe dans les Cantons-de-l'Est, dans le sud-est et le sud-central du Québec. Une grande partie de la région borde les États-Unis. La présence de la frontière se fait sentir dans les deux romans, ainsi que d'autres points de repère bien connus du lectorat québécois. Cet article propose que cet ancrage apparent dans le régional se trouve contesté par l'adhérence de ces textes aux conventions formelles du roman policier et ses sous-genres. Still Life et Le Cri du cerf inviteraient ainsi à des lectures aux niveaux multiples mettant en dialogue l'hyperlocal et l'international et provoquant du même coup une remise en question des conceptions de la fiction régionale.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46995093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fictional representations of rural Québec in The Night Manager, Autour d'Éva and Sur la 132","authors":"Sophie Marcotte","doi":"10.3828/bjcs.2021.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2021.14","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In John le Carré's The Night Manager (1993), the main character, Jonathan Pine, after fleeing Cairo and having resided in Zurich and Cornwall, retreats for several months to a remote mining community called Espérance, in the Abitibi region, north of Val d'Or, in the province of Québec. Pine, hiding under the alias of Jacques Beauregard, is hired as a cook at the Château Babette hotel. His stay in Abitibi covers the whole of Chapter 9. He will later pursue his mission in the Bahamas. Le Carré's humoristic representation of regional Québec contrasts with his darker caricatures of Switzerland, and especially the Bahamas. It also contrasts with the dark portrayal of Québec's rural regions in Québec novels Autour d'Éva (2016), by Louis Hamelin, and Sur la 132 (2012), by Gabriel Anctil.Abstract:Dans The Night Manager (1993) de John le Carré, le personnage principal, Jonathan Pine, après avoir fui Le Caire et avoir résidé à Zurich et en Cornouailles, se retire pendant plusieurs mois dans une communauté minière isolée appelée Espérance, dans la région de l'Abitibi, au nord de Val d'Or, dans la province de Québec. Pine, qui se cache sous le pseudonyme de Jacques Beauregard, est embauché comme cuisinier à l'hôtel Château Babette. Son séjour en Abitibi couvre l'ensemble du chapitre 9. Il poursuivra ensuite sa mission aux Bahamas. Le discours humoristique sur les régions du Québec contraste avec la manière caricaturale plus sombre avec laquelle la Suisse et les Bahamas sont représentés. Ce discours fait aussi contraste avec le portrait sombre de certaines régions du Québec qu'offrent les romans Québécois Autour d'Éva (2016) de Louis Hamelin et Sur la 132 (2012) de Gabriel Anctil.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46747147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Québec and Canadian Studies in Britain: reflections of a pioneer","authors":"C. May","doi":"10.3828/BJCS.2021.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/BJCS.2021.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49140607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cedric May, québéciste et canadianiste: an introductory note","authors":"R. Killick","doi":"10.3828/BJCS.2021.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/BJCS.2021.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46626625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"'\"Gender, genre and nationality\"': Alice Munro's forging of her short story way","authors":"Isla J. Duncan","doi":"10.3828/bjcs.2020.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2020.7","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the first part of this article, I argue that Alice Munro, in her early career, was disadvantaged by her gender, by her Canadianness, and by her commitment to short fiction. She has overcome most of the obstacles and prejudices she faced in the 1950s and 1960s, and is regarded as one of the world's finest contemporary writers. In the latter part of my article, I discuss the distinctive qualities of her narrative art, maintaining that they have become Munrovian hallmarks and are enhanced in her chosen form, the short story.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47246511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Borderline Canadianness: Border Crossings and Everyday Nationalism in Niagara by Jane Helleiner (review)","authors":"C. Denis","doi":"10.3138/9781442619326-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442619326-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3138/9781442619326-002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47936251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}