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The current vitality of the comic art milieu in Quebec is related both to the appearance of new authors and to the consolidation of their work through new editorial formats in which their talents can develop. The recognition of this alternative way, more or less consciously chosen at a time when the traditional model (44-page Franco-Belgian album in colour) is still in use and a new model (identified with the “graphic novel”) is being incorporated into the commercial channels of the book trade, is encouraging authors to develop a reflexive discourse in which the visual creation of their panels is justified according to various formal parameters that are acknowledged to enhance the work's storyline, as well as its narrative and expressive force. However, the range of these parameters is orchestrated according to an equilibrium that is continuously changing, depending on the project currently being carried out and on an underlying aesthetic position developed from one project to the next. Through the works, interviews, and statements of position of authors who have chosen this alternative way—Diane Obomsawin, Jimmy Beaulieu, Michel Rabagliati, and Zviane—the author provides an outline of their metadiscourse, in order to identify some of the aesthetic issues seen as relevant by well-known practitioners of comic art in Quebec today.
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Farmers Facing Expropriation ; Lille, 1950-1980 In the greater Lille area in northern France, urban actors have adopted strategies based on the principle of expropriating land for reasons of "public utility". Owing to its effectiveness, this principle has been widely applied with, as a consequence, conflicts that have thrown farms out of economic balance as land is taken away. Furthermore, the division of land into lots has also "destructured" areas ; and this turns out to be the most serious consequence of certain types of operations. Farmers and farm professionals have been led to propose arrangements following expropriation procedures. The outcome has been uncertain in these zones around urban areas, since so many conditions — whether within farming society and space or having to do with general geography — have to be met for operations to be successful.
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The One and the Other.Nathalie Sarraute and Francis Ponge both have an explorer's relationship to language, one to words, the other to their "Use"; which makes of both, writers engaged in a poetic enterprise.
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