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AbstractIs a person's past revealing? Are moral values indifferent to personal identity? Can a person change radically if circumstances change? These are some of the general questions surrounding this specific issue in post-communist countries, whether it is possible or not to ignore the fact that a politician who today declares his “democratic convictions” has collaborated with the political police. This question, asked within the context of the problem of personal identity, is concerned with a reality difficult to imagine for a citizen of a democratic society who has never known either torture, or the intimidations of the political police under communism, in a time when there was one informer for every twenty people. This article examines the possible consequences which could follow the opening of political police archives for the identity of those who were “subject to surveillance” and for the former informers. Taking into account that personal identity is defined in terms of continuity and of a certain unity, this article analyses two “typical” cases even though they are limited. The first is concerned with the recovery of personal identity through confession and the second, with the heroic preservation of identity coherence in exceptional cases.
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The Livre vert (Green Paper) on Culture was drafted by Minister Jean- Paul L'Allier during the year preceding the general elections of November 15, 1976. The document consists of three parts. The first brings together previous texts from the political and cultural circles that legitimize the approach of the Green Paper. The second diagnoses the state of fifteen cultural sectors in connection with the action of the Department. As for the third part, it appears as a problem-solving approach by proposing a structural reorganization of the Department of Cultural Affairs and the organizations attached to it. Among the recommendations, L'Allier proposes to grant administrative autonomy to major public cultural institutions. True to the spirit of the 1970s, the Green Paper bears witness to an interventionist state in the cultural field.
Keywords: politique, culture, gouvernement, Québec, Jean-Paul L'Allier, Robert Bourassa, politics, culture, government, Québec, Jean-Paul L'Allier, Robert Bourassa
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This article reflects some of the results of my research into the songs of Canada's coal mining communities. In particular, it is a study of songs which emerged as a result of the Labour Union Movement on this continent. The hardships and sacrifices endured by Canadian coal miners, beginning with the earliest attempts to unionize in 1879 through the great strikes of the early twentieth century, have been well-documented in song. Although not all the songs are traditional in the sense of having been transmitted orally from generation to generation, they do offer a valuable insight into the traditions which nurtured the growth of unionism in this country.
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AbstractHow and up to what point do yesterday's and today's immigrants share public cultural space in Quebec? Issues of exclusion/inclusion evolve in step with changes in the very definition of Quebec identity and of the heritage that symbolizes it. How are immigrants represented? Individually and/or collectively? Are they integrated or separated? Passive or active? Are they more often linked to their community of origin or their Quebec experience? By analyzing the exhibits Memories and People of Québec Then and Now, both focusing on the theme of identity and presented at Quebec City's Musée de la civilisation, this article intends to question the ways immigrants are represented and current strategies of intercultural mediation.
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The author analyses one of the first works on the history of the Haitian revolution, Voyage dans le Nord d'Hayti by Charles Hérard Dumesle, published in 1824. Through comparing it to the French critical traditions of the time, and to the social and political situation of Haiti, this analysis seeks to demonstrate the aesthetic and political constraints which inspired a polyphonic writing style for the Haitian intellectual. The juxtaposition of a multiplicity of cultural and philosophical traditions allowed Hérard Dumesle to create a fragmented text which corresponded to the omnipresent signs of destruction in the nation. The book, which rebels against both the metropolitan and indigenous despots, has remained buried beneath later works of historiography which sought to adapt themselves to the needs of a scientific discourse.