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Folle, the second narrative from Quebec writer Nelly Arcan, is a long love and suicide letter the narrator (also named Nelly) dedicates to the French lover who abandoned her. Folle is both a shameless autofiction that depicts in detail Nelly’s crazy love and a veil that allows her to tell her desperate story in a modest fashion through her pseudonym.
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The scholarly book La question raciale et raciste dans le roman québécois (1995), by Gérard Étienne, is based on important anthropo-semiotic research. It aims to raise awareness of the unsaid and blind spots in the power relations of Quebec society, as well as of the consensus where various forms of racism circulate. The critical reviews of Étienne's text which do not dare to take into account the facts presented also contribute to the unsaid. Through the exploration of this metacritical corpus and Étienne's avant-garde research turned towards the rise of Black Power, postcolonialism, multiculturalism and interculturalism, we show the evolution of power relations in contemporary Quebec society.
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Through a narrative reading of two biblical stories, we seek to show the contrast between two female characters. Tamar (Genesis 38) and Potiphar's wife (Genesis 39) are both in a very fragile situation. The first is sent away from her in-laws with a false promise that could make her husband's name disappear from the face of the earth. The second is frustrated to have her desire spurned by a servant who has become her husband's assistant. The reactions of the two women, however, are quite different. Tamar follows through with her frailty in order to help Judah, her father-in-law, to assume his own. As for Potiphar's wife, being vulnerable after a failed attempt at seduction, she goes through with her wickedness to accuse Joseph of her own desire. The two ways of responding give two different results. Tamar's conduct is recognized as just by Judah. In contrast, the false accusation of Potiphar's wife locks an innocent person in prison. From these two stories, we learn that, depending on our reaction, vulnerability can have a positive or negative effect.
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This article concerns the commercial prostitution that was operating in the Montreal region from 1981 to 1985. An analysis of the police archives and the classified advertisements made it possible to reconstitute the decisions a criminal who wants to get into this market has to make with regard to the opportunities available and the specific requirements of his milieu (social and police-related). One of the major conclusions of this article is the transient structural nature of ventures in commercial prostitution. The results could be evidence of the temporary nature and instability of the criminal opportunities themselves.
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Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes's (1884-1974) literary legacy is well established with regard to his activities as poet, polemicist and playwright working within the Dada movement. His importance as a novelist, however, remains to be acknowledged. In order to contribute to the (re)discovery of this atypical French writer, who managed to remain faithful — but not enslaved — to Dada's subversive and liberating spirit, the present contribution offers a new reading of Céleste Ugolin (1926), a novel which constantly alternates between indifference and aggressivity, and its affinities with the works by Alfred Jarry (1874-1907). Inspired by Jarry's ultramodern ideas of literature, Ribemont-Dessaignes implements a binary logic of destruction and reconstruction. More than a study in literary influences, this paper seeks to establish Ribemont-Dessaignes's place among important early twentieth-century novelists like Aragon, Cendrars and Camus.