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Today‘s Schedule
• Rounding off: Multicultural Literature -Transcultural Literature
• Canada – USA today• Quebec in the 20th century, esp. The Quiet
Revolution• Texts in the Reader for the Final Exam: 1);
2) esp. "Distance", "Baffin Island", "49thparallel", "The Maple Leaf"; 3) esp. "From theHip"; 4; 5; 8; 11; 14; 15; 17(quickly); 18(quickly); 20; 26
Rohinton Mistry (born 1952) Tales from Firozsha Baag (1987)
Canadian entry Academy Awards 2006
Michael Ondaatje(1943); Jane Urquhart (1949)
USA - CANADA• Imperial Power; Coca-Colanization,
McWorldization; cultural/economichegemony
• Canada: 85% trade with US; NAFTA• 51st State?; De-Canadaization? Bushize
Canada?• New Canadian Administration: Prime
minister Stephen Harper (Conservativeminority government)
Quebec
• Quebec separatism: two referendums in1980 and 1995.
• pure laine=clean wool• Stephen Harper (Canadian prime minster)• Trauma, inferiority complex after 1759;
increased influence of l’église (the church)after the Conquest
• Act of Union: Durham Report - suggested toassimilate les Canadiens
Cornelius Krieghoff(1815-1871)
Maurice DuplessisPremier of Quebec until 1959
La Révolution tranquille• 1960-70• Directions: inward (traditional Quebec), outward
(Anglo-Canada)Changes:• Modernization of economic structures• End of dominant influence of the Church• Emergence of the term Québécois (not: Canadién,
Franco-Canadians)• “the time when everyone stopped going to church“• Education
Lesage - Johnson - Levesque
De Gaulle “Vive le Québeclibre!” (Expo, 1967)
Anne Hebert(1916-2000),Gaston Miron (1928-1996),
Michel Tremblay (1942)
Je parle de CECI.CECi, mon état d’infériorité collectif. CECI, qui m’agresse dansmon etre et ma qualité d’homme espèce et spécifique….Jeparle de ce qui sépare.Le non-poèmec’est mon historicité…c’est ma language que je ne sais plus reconnnaitre…l’alíenation du politique et de l’économique.Je suis malade d’un cauchemar héréditaire…Mon nom est“Amnésique Miron”.(Gaston Míron)
Or: Michel Tremblay: Les Belles-Soeures (1968) written in Joual
• Royal Commission on Bilingualism andBiculturalism (in the 60s)
• Official Languages Act: Canada is madean officially bilingual nation
• Two contradictory narratives:Quebec -Conquest: trauma; Anglo-Canada:evolution of political freedom.
Natives
• Indian Act: 1876• Strongly regulated; assimilation as a goal• Watershed after WWII: red power
movement, self-government and self-determination, land claims
• Nunavut: autonomous territory since1999.
(Geographical) regions ofCanada
• Atlantic region• St: Lawrence Lowlands• Canadian Shield• Great Plains• The Cordillera and the Rockies• The Far North