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This article examines discursive and narrative strategies of métissage and self-indigenization in Volkswagen Blues, a transculturalist novel published in 1984 by Quebecois writer Jacques Poulin. Claims to indigeneity and métissage in the novels do not appear directly, but through the myth of French America; settler colonialism is concealed, Indigenous peoples are relegated to a prehistoric past, and French settler past is implicitly foregrounded as the origin of North America.
Keywords: auto-autochtonisation, révision historique, littérature québécoise, spatiotemporalité, métissage, métissage, métissage
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Although male homosexuality is never explicitly named in L'Autre vue (1904) by Belgian author Georges Eekhoud, numerous clues suggest that it is the novel's central subject and that it can be reread from a queer perspective. Theories of the unreliable narrator reveal the presence of not one but two homosexual characters: Paridael and Bergmans. Once unmasked, the latter provides access to a militant discourse in favor of legitimizing homosexuality in the novel's central section – Paridael's diary – by merging two levels of reading: an explicit social and political discourse that conceals an implicit homosexual one.
Keywords: homosexualité masculine, littérature belge, siècle, roman, narrateur non fiable, male homosexuality, Belgian literature, 19th century, novel, unreliable narrator
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This contribution tries to expound and explain the dilemm of the nineteenth-century French theatre : whether accept the dramatic conventions of the time and give up any possibility of creation ; or resolutely refuse them in order to promote a « theatre of the future », and at the same time for go any possibility of success. From 1870 on, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam is maybe the best illustration of the second option, even though the young Symbolist generation professed a great admiration for him. Therefore this very moment of crisis deserves to be analysed. Thus one can understand why drama remained the great literary ambition throughout the nineteenth century, but yet failed to impose new dramatic values, and this despite a very acute awareness of the general mediocrity which was prevalent on the contemporary stage.
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