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This paper attempts to interpret the research of identity experienced by some members of the Italian community of Montreal, defined as parents and children of the post World War II period. The author proposes a detour, going through the migration project of the parents, its modifications and the links it shows with the migrations of the beginning of the century, in order to show how the ethnic experience in the receiving society can be shaped by the aspirations responsible for the crossing of the ocean. Migrations thus looks as a complex and contradictory phenomenon which includes that of ethnicity and which conditions the relations that tie and oppose both national identity and local identity.
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Keywords: littérature autochtone francophone, études autochtones, éthique de la recherche, communautés autochtones
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This study analyzes the relationship between the promise implied in the paratext of Roland Brival's novel (Gallimard, 2016) and the book's contents. Its title, Nègre de personne (Nobody's Negro), sounds like a proud claim. Its backcover states that the novel is about Léon-Gontran Damas's trip to New York in order to meet the Black intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. This « self-set appointment with history » will force him « to radically review his own conviction », while « a young and passionate rebel woman » enters his life. Such packaging is rather attractive, but Damas's trip to Harlem was invented by Brival, just like the diary in which Damas addresses Césaire and Senghor and in which he confides his torrid sexual encounters with a female Haitian artist – a choice that runs rather counter to recent queer readings of Damas's poems. Brival's novel thus raises all kinds of questions about the merits of his text and the meaning of a fictional autobiographical tale that takes so many liberties with literary history, including imitations of Damas's poems of dubious authorship.