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While based mainly on examples and conclusions drawn from a study on the oral tradition of West Pubnico, Nova Scotia, this article examines the joke, an active genre that has rarely been studied among the Acadian population. It explores the repertoire of a contemporary storyteller. Are the jokes told in this region original ? Are they localised or personalised ? Are they representative of the local culture ? Although based on fictitious scenarios, the jokes collected represent a certain cultural reality. They reflect the concerns, values and attitudes common to the people of Pubnico, and in certain cases to the majority of Acadians in the Maritimes and Cajuns in Louisiana. Even when several narratives are drawn from international sources, if a community accepts and adopts a joke, it is probably because it is representative of themselves. Among the stories collected, several topics arise systematically : anticlerical humour, sexual morality, politics, language problems and ethnicity.
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This article discusses a certain state of the political imagination of a Canada-in-the-making and outlines the matrix of common representations of the Confederation in the years 1864 – 1867 in western and eastern Canada. My research is based on a corpus of cartoons and editorials that are by and large about risk and calculated risk, with the sub-themes being the unity or disintegration of geographical, national and even personal identities. Between monstrous depictions and family scenes, the texts and images of this Canada-in-the-making are very rich in capturing the country's general mood. The visual imagery includes hydras, octopuses and Gorgon heads as manifestations of the fears and concerns about the Confederation. In terms of the narratives, vivid descriptions of the threat of innocent or savage girls being married are frequently deployed by the newspapers to promote the idea of the Confederation, as embodied in the city of Ottawa as the seat of government. This article aims to open a broad sociocritical analysis on a number of aspects of the representations of a Canada-in-the-making, such as the envisioned role of its parliament, democratic representation, the ministerial stability of elected officials, and the building of an identification with the Confederation.
Keywords: Confédération, caricatures, Bas-Canada, Haut-Canada, mariage forcé, Confederation, caricatures, Lower Canada, Upper Canada, forced marriage
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