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The “denarrativization” of Céline's writing in the German trilogy allows him to write a History of chaos, to achieve an infra-writing of History steeped in the commonplace, to give voice to the “non-tellable.” This study explores how a literary writing of history (and the concomitant reading thereof) makes it possible to at once recount History in another way, to tell a story different from the official historiography, and finally to recount something other than history.
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The anti-Semitic writings of Catholic French-Canadian intellectuals have received a lot of attention. From Lionel Groulx to Le Devoir, not to mention the Jeune-Canada movement, the 1930s have much to offer those interested in the issue of anti-Semitism in Catholic Quebec. A large number of relevant studies have focused on the period. However, although Catholicism has often been identified as a source of anti-Semitism, the role of the Catholic Church as an institution has yet to be examined. This article explores the views of the Catholic Church on anti-Semitism and its expressions, especially in relation to Adrien Arcand's Christian National Socialist Party. Did the Church encourage anti-Semitism among its followers, did it condemn anti-Semitism, or did it largely ignore the issue ? Did the bishops themselves harbour prejudice against Jews, or even fear them ? The recently opened archives of the Archdioceses of Quebec and Montreal show that, on the one hand, the Church generally failed to reach out to the Jewish community or encourage Catholics to be more open and understanding. On the other hand, the Church was suspicious of Adrien Arcand's party and had little appetite for his virulently anti-Jewish discourse. The article illustrates these findings by revisiting the 1930 debate on Jewish schools, the the relationship between the Quebec Church and the Christian National Socialist Party, as well as the anti-Semitic rhetoric of some priests in the Diocese of Quebec.
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As part of a larger research project on the history of popular song, which analyzes the musical preferences of the female readers of the Bulletin des agriculteurs in the 1940s, this article focuses on those elements that allow for an understanding of the modalities by which these women's musical tastes reflected the emergence of a cultural modernity in Quebec during that decade. Two basic premises orient my perspective on the subject. The first presupposes the existence of a “popular” cultural modernity based on form, equipment, and technology. The second explores both the way in which intimate themes and the importance given to expressions of love reflected a shift in values, as well as the formal and discursive markers that transmitted these values in popular song.
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The anti-Semitic writings of Catholic French-Canadian intellectuals have received a lot of attention. From Lionel Groulx to Le Devoir, not to mention the Jeune-Canada movement, the 1930s have much to offer those interested in the issue of anti-Semitism in Catholic Quebec. A large number of relevant studies have focused on the period. However, although Catholicism has often been identified as a source of anti-Semitism, the role of the Catholic Church as an institution has yet to be examined. This article explores the views of the Catholic Church on anti-Semitism and its expressions, especially in relation to Adrien Arcand's Christian National Socialist Party. Did the Church encourage anti-Semitism among its followers, did it condemn anti-Semitism, or did it largely ignore the issue ? Did the bishops themselves harbour prejudice against Jews, or even fear them ? The recently opened archives of the Archdioceses of Quebec and Montreal show that, on the one hand, the Church generally failed to reach out to the Jewish community or encourage Catholics to be more open and understanding. On the other hand, the Church was suspicious of Adrien Arcand's party and had little appetite for his virulently anti-Jewish discourse. The article illustrates these findings by revisiting the 1930 debate on Jewish schools, the the relationship between the Quebec Church and the Christian National Socialist Party, as well as the anti-Semitic rhetoric of some priests in the Diocese of Quebec.
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AbstractHistorical maps are not simply scientific reflections of geography. It is better to understand them as « constructions » that show us how past societies understood their world. They played a significant role in the construction of a « New World of the mind » by the French ministers, Louis and Jérôme de Pontchartrain, who governed the destiny of Canada between 1690 and 1715. If the maps of J.-B.-L. Franquelin reveal both the danger and the possibilities of a continental, imperialist policy in North America, the maps of J.-B. de Couagne show us Jérôme's less grandiose choice. Consequently, we are obliged to reject the thesis of an ambitious imperial policy in the last years of the reign of Louis XIV.
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Keywords: Nationalisme, fédéralisme, indépendance, revues, constitution, intellectuels, commission Pepin-Robarts
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Popular tales (or tales from the oral tradition) are among the first objects of study in ethnology/folklore. They belong to the realm of orality, often described as “oral literature” or “orature.” This article first presents a historiography of the ethnological study of tales, showing how researchers have shifted their gaze from the “text” to the “context,” i.e., from the object itself to the context in which it is uttered and to the person telling the story. Secondly, to provide an example of what characterizes the oral tale and storytellers of the past, two contemporary storytellers associated with the transmission of a heritage of oral tales—Michel Faubert and Fred Pellerin—are studied in order to illustrate their concept of the tale, their influences, and their storytelling art, while attempting to determine if they are part of the tradition. For these storytellers, the art of the tale consists in making images appear: performance is what nourishes the imagination, and the storyteller's relation with the audience is what makes the tale come alive and what sustains it as an oral form. Today's ethnological research on tales includes modern, multiple and innovative forms emerging from a dynamic process of communication and transmission in which storytellers' performativity plays a key role. From an ethnological perspective, in other words, the art of storytelling is not a kind of folklore that has been relegated to museums but a living tradition.