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The rejection of Amerindian heritage is part of the “dominant fictions” denounced by Suzanne Jacob in her essay La bulle d'encre (The ink bubble). It is the central theme of her novel Rouge, mère et fils (Red, mother and son) (2001) as well as the subject of this article, which analyzes the novel's composition (based on the colour red) and its main characters: mother Delphine, son Luc, father Félix and a flamboyant character called the Trickster, through whom, at the novel's end, the mother and son recover the thread of their history, irrigated by the Amerindian blood that flows through their veins. The article highlights the change of register that appears in the novel's last chapter, which relinquishes the ironic tone employed up to then and replaces it with a prose both solemn and poetic. By appropriating a spurned heritage (that of Amerindian miscegenation repressed by Quebec identity discourse), the novel is itself spurned by this heritage on behalf of a request for meaning that comes from outside the novel.
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