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The life, and above all the death, of the Jesuit missionary Jean de Brébeuf in 17th century Huronia occupies a complex and evolving position in the Canadian imaginary. A key historical figure at the time of initial contact between European colonisers and the Indigenous peoples of what is now Canada, Brébeuf was destined to become larger than the historical role he played in life. With his death, Brébeuf entered into the realm of mythic representations of Canada. The present article seeks to trace the historical trajectory of Brébeuf's place in anglophone and francophone Canadian literature. Through a reading of three representative literary texts, the article will suggest that the literary depiction of Brébeuf may be closely aligned with historically changing conceptions of Canada according to Francophone, Anglophone and Indigenous understandings of the national identity.
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In God is Red, Vine Deloria Jr. claims that in religions based on revelations “beliefs substitute for lived experience”. Experience is however central to Native American tribal religions, in which death is not anticipated with fear, but as the accomplishment of one's destiny. Based on fieldwork among the Wayuu of Columbia, South America and among the Dene Tha of northwestern Alberta in Canada, this paper demonstrates that notwithstanding their common apprehension of the world based on personal experience, the manner in which the Wayuu and Dene Tha face their own death and that of others in their midst differ significantly according to their distinct cosmologies and ontologies. In both societies, however, special attention is given to dreams which are occasions of meetings with the deceased and thus constitute a form of intersubjectivity which bridges the here and the beyond.
Keywords: christianisme, autochtones, religions tribales, Amérique du Nord, Amérique du Sud, conceptions de la mort, christianity, Indigenous, tribal religions, North America, South America, conceptions of death
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AbstractFrom the beginning of her writing career, Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska has worked to deconstruct the exclusively masculine vision of woman, or what she calls "discourses of the eye." In her theoretical writings, she dreams of an absent maternal language that would allow the expression of a woman's reality concealed behind patriarchal myths. This "feminist reading" of her work analyzes the links between her theoretical texts and her own literary practice, especially her major works of the eighties (La tentation de dire and La maison Trestler), which seem to embody the complete fulfillment of her theoretical project.
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Our examination of Quebec researchers' contribution to literary studies of the Enlightenment is limited to a single case, that of the collections created by the Cercle interuniversitaire d'étude sur la République des Lettres (CIERL). This example represents only a partial perspective, of course, but it is a privileged testimony nevertheless. Indeed, when browsing the catalogue of the Collections, one notes the extent to which numerous authors and works reflect a sensitivity to the vast issue of the genesis of the modern subject, a sensitivity based on new practices, ideas and pathways that enable a redefinition of the “I”. It is precisely these new faces of the “I” that will be examined here. Whether an “I” is meditating on passion and sensitivity, pondering how it fits into a story or, finally, exploring the more intimate avenue of the journal or memoir, each case demonstrates how the various faces assumed by this proteiform “I” in the modern era have been problematized in Quebec.
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By its etymology, global citizen, cosmopolitanism claims to a certain rootlessness in relation to membership in a particular city. Based on the observation of some American liberal circles by which the U.S. would be, since their foundation, a microcosm of cosmopolitanism — multiculturalism appears a sort of parenthesis in this historic journey — this text is intended to demonstrate how such a cosmopolitanism is essentially nationalist. All this tends to confirm the hypothesis that cosmopolitanism as the concepts that aim to make it readable these phenomena need paradoxically a place to happen.
Keywords: cosmopolitisme, multiculturalisme, nationalisme, démocratie, États-Unis, Europe, cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism, nationalism, democracy, United-States, Europe, cosmopolitismo, multiculturalismo, nacionalismo, democracia, Estados Unidos, Europa
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AbstractIn spite of its essential contribution to the formation of Hispano-American identity throughout the last five hundred years, translation has not yet reached the status of a priority research topic. Amongst least studied periods are the 16th and 17th centuries; and the Province of Venezuela lies amongst the most forgotten regions. This research intends to reveal the most significant linguistic activities of this region and particularly focuses on translation tasks—catechisms and prayer books—carried out by members of the various religious orders to whom the Spanish Crown gave the responsibility of spiritually conquering America. This descriptive study aims at pointing on research avenues for the interpretation of the transcultural nature of the relations between American colonies and Spain.
Keywords: traduction, Venezuela, Amérique latine, trans-culturation, catéchisme, translation, Venezuela, Latin America, trans-culturation, catechism
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AbstractHypatie ou la fin des dieux (1989) is the first part of Jean Marcel's Triptyque des temps perdus. The overall title of this trilogy, and the titles of its three novels, indicates that it is intended as a portrait of a bygone era—the end of Antiquity and the rise of Christianity—depicted on the basis of biographies of historical figures. Having analyzed the novel's structure and the forms and organization of its components, and having compared events related in the novel with historical data, this article identifies Hypatie as part of a contemporary trend characterized by the use of «metafiction».
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AbstractThis article presents an unpublished text by Jacques Ferron ; a dedication to Jean Marcel written in January 1966 at the same time that the author of La Nuit showed a desire to produce an important and significative literary work. This dedication to Jean Marcel, which will here be the object of an interpretive commentary, constitutes an important proof of this ambition and the strategy adopted by Ferron to accomplish his task, a much more concerted strategy than has been generally imagined.