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Heritage is in desperate straits. It is suffering from a serious «affliction» that is difficult to define. How can we explain this phenomenon by placing it more squarely on the path of Quebec's socio-political trajectory? In order to answer this most worrisome question, this article sets forth a strong (hypo)thesis that, even so, cannot be demonstrated in the primary sense of the term: for this reason we call it an attempt at theorizing. Its objective is to propose an approach toward a response that seems promising to us, and that we hope then to see debated within the academic community and practicians more broadly. To put in a nutshell, we argue that the «heritage disorder» in Quebec can be explained mainly by the prevalence of Americanity – as a dominant idea – to imagine the present being, the past and the future of Quebec society. In so doing, the Quebec nation has come to imagine itself through the single lens of a radical modernity, rejecting on principle any distinctive collective intentionality. It is because it more or less (un)consciously associates heritage with traditions, and then traditionalism with Old Regime societies, that Americanity is at the heart of the heritage chaos and of the act of heritagization.
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In 1836, the Parliament of Lower Canada and the colonial government were in a deadlock. The Legislative Council used and abused its veto, Governor Gosford had lost all credibility in the eyes of the patriot majority in the House and London had yet to provide an answer to the recriminations of 1834 contained in the 92 Resolutions. Up to that point, the refusal to vote the subsidies had been the weapon of the members of Parliament but the Executive began to ignore the decisions of Parliament with respect to the budget. In September 1836, the members of Parliament met in session and decided to refuse any collaboration whatsoever. In a word, they went on strike. From that point onwards, the colonial government was totally paralyzed. The battle was thus engaged and the 1791 constitution, revealing all its structural deficiencies, was nearing its end.
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Keywords: Insularité, Attoumani Nassur, Domination masculine, Attoumani Nassur, Littérature mahoraise