{"title":"“Minor” literature of an itinerant culture: Goulet, Campbell, and the Canadian Métis","authors":"Annie Rehill","doi":"10.3828/cfc.2020.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2020.9","url":null,"abstract":"The Canadian Métis population historically was marginalized and then oppressed, yet retains cultural vibrancy. The movement and adaptation necessary to survive became defining characteristics of their artistic expression, and the Métis who once spoke French and autochthonous languages now speak mostly English, albeit embroidered with traces of previous languages. Examining Métis literature reveals how language migrates, adapts, and transforms as a living phenomenon, in a Deleuzo-Guattarien process of continual movement, plateau-reaching, and regrouping while seeking new favorable environments (which means the ability to work, which increasingly means speaking English in this context). This historical literary unfolding is traced here in works by Louis Goulet, Maria Campbell, Marilyn Dumont, and Rita Bouvier, to demonstrate the development of a minor literature as defined by Deleuze and Guattari, and of a literature that emanates from a culture of inclusivity and itinérance as described by François Paré, who focuses on the French-Canadian diaspora beyond Quebec. Métis literature is resistant by nature, representative of a population that is not in the majority. The writings considered here share fundamental characteristics of numerous other minority literary expressions of survival and resistance. In addition to Deleuze and Guattari and Paré, helpful critical perspectives include those of Pamela Sing, Emma LaRocque, and Gloria Anzaldúa. Rehill, Annie Contemporary French Civilization (2020), 45, (2), 143–164. One time Access Token Enter code here","PeriodicalId":53563,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French Civilization","volume":"45 1","pages":"143-164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48729449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Populism, paranoia, and the interwar press: Henri Béraud at Gringoire","authors":"J. Earle","doi":"10.3828/CFC.2020.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/CFC.2020.2","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the conspiratorial rhetoric of the political writings of right-wing polemicist Henri Beraud in the 1930s. Beginning in 1934, Beraud served as chief political editorialist at t...","PeriodicalId":53563,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French Civilization","volume":"45 1","pages":"7-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42837360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: partisanship, radicalization, and polarization in the interwar period","authors":"Andrew Sobanet","doi":"10.3828/cfc.2020.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2020.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53563,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French Civilization","volume":"45 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70457611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The sixth of February 1934: the press against the historians?","authors":"Paul F. Jankowski","doi":"10.3828/cfc.2020.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2020.6","url":null,"abstract":"A succession of historians, many of them British or American, have understood the riot outside the Chamber of Deputies in Paris on 6 February 1934 in European terms. Initially tending to associate ...","PeriodicalId":53563,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French Civilization","volume":"45 1","pages":"89-102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45599362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Molotov-Ribbentrop-Aragon: the Nazi-Soviet pact, French newspapers, and the French Communist Part","authors":"Andrew Sobanet","doi":"10.3828/cfc.2020.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2020.7","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how Louis Aragon became the symbol for the reaction of the French Communist Party (PCF) to the August 1939 pact of non-aggression between the USSR and Nazi Germany. The party’...","PeriodicalId":53563,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French Civilization","volume":"45 1","pages":"103-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45913374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Camelots du roi ou rouges”: radicalization in early twentieth-century Haitian periodicals","authors":"C. Stieber","doi":"10.3828/cfc.2020.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2020.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53563,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French Civilization","volume":"45 1","pages":"47-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/cfc.2020.4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42667699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lending identity: circulating literacy, current events, Yiddish culture, and politics in interwar France","authors":"N. Underwood","doi":"10.3828/CFC.2020.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/CFC.2020.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53563,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French Civilization","volume":"45 1","pages":"71-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43263991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Daniel Guérin’sLa Peste brune: reports from Nazi Germany","authors":"Christine M. Cano","doi":"10.3828/cfc.2020.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2020.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53563,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French Civilization","volume":"45 1","pages":"27-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46584738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(Don’t) call me queer:transpédégouine, the global gay, and the logics of Western “liberty”","authors":"Cj Gomolka","doi":"10.3828/cfc.2019.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2019.22","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of the antiparastasic term transpedegouine first appeared during Le Zoo conferences of 1996 and 1997. Since then, this denomination has appeared against, as replacements for, but also...","PeriodicalId":53563,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French Civilization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42952372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"D’un impossible retour: théâtralité et spectralité dans Juste la fin du monde de Xavier Dolan","authors":"Dominique D. Fisher","doi":"10.3828/cfc.2019.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2019.11","url":null,"abstract":"Juste la fin du monde est une reecriture filmique de la piece de Jean-Luc Lagarce. Ce film en huis clos se distingue des autres films de Xavier Dolan par son economie narrative, par la fragmentatio...","PeriodicalId":53563,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French Civilization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43239807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}