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Keywords: Politique étrangère, Francophonie, relations France-Québec-Canada, Afrique et francophonie
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In the work of Michael Delisle, constancy derives from the fact that the mother is everywhere while the father is absent. Of the seven short stories collected in Le sort de Fille, five give significant space to representing the mother. “Le Pont” and “Relation” are the only two stories that deal with an encounter between the author's alter ego “Mike” and his father. “Relation” presents itself as a sequel to the young Mike's action in “Le Pont”. In the first story, Mike was able to free himself from an identity system, based on the mother, that was too symbiotic as a result of the father's absence. “Relation” tells the story of a symbolic quest for the absent father in three places of worship located in European cities. The article seeks to analyze the nature of this search for faith by foregrounding the dialectic relation between the real and the ideal that emerges throughout the character's journey of initiation.
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The process embodied in Gilles Cyr's early collections has often been compared to that of the phenomenologist. Sol inapparent and Ce lieu showed an observer who jettisoned every concept as he confronted the elements in the nakedness of the perceptive experience. This article seeks not to challenge this interpretation but to refine it and, particularly, to show how Cyr's later works distance themselves from any “serious” attempt to “return to things themselves,” as various twists of discourse create a new relationship between observation and speech. Instead of presenting a subject attempting to go back to the sources of his being-in-the-world, these poems introduce an individual who is called on to get by in a universe of forces on which he has a limited point of view, and who acknowledges the situation and deals with it using a good dose of scepticism and irony.
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For a long time we associated epistolary and feminine gender. Does the literary history really seal this association by the consecration of a more important number of women who practiced epistolary. To this question, the author answers negatively. She proposes however a second reading of the correspondence of JulieBruneau-Papineau (1795-1862) from the concept of “ethos” to extricate the esthetics takes in these letters. The analysis of the discourse shows that the control of thee pistolary code by this patriotic woman invites to recognize her the status of letterwriter's model. The example of Bruneau-Papineau incites reread again the other women's letters of period.
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In Poulin's work, the individual remains the creator of his own space of life, oscillating between utopian spaces – « countries without a place and histories without a chronology » –, heterotopian spaces – « utopias that have a precise and real place » (Foucault 23) – and not utopian. Utopian and heterotopic spaces, otherwise referred to as « counter-spaces » are perceived here as spaces of resistance: « places that oppose all others, that are intended in some way to erase, neutralize or purify them » (Foucault 24). In the end, the relationship to reality is different for everyone, but, according to Poulin, balance is essential.This paper seeks to show how the characters of the Driver in La tournée d’automne and Jack in Les yeux bleus de Mistassini find their own equilibrium thanks to « counter-spaces », thereby escaping the drama of the ageing body. By providing a refuge for the characters to reflect on themselves and their relationship to others and to life, these “counter-spaces” contribute to their search for identity and to their resilience against the fear of erasure.
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ABSTRACTAmericans' loss of confidence in their institutions is linked to the decline of social capital, that is to their trust in each other, their civic engagement and their levels of association. Among all the factors accounting for Americans' reduced involvement in their communities, the most important is the presence of television in all households. This corresponds chronologically and generationally to the fall-off in social capital. The solution to the crisis of confidence which plagues American institutions is the invention, within civil society, of new forms of involvement.