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The Lives of the Novel
Reprint. Originally published: Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, A 2013.
The Challenges of a Secular Quebec
In 2019, the Quebec National Assembly passed Bill 21. It prohibits, among other things, certain state employees in positions of authority (including teachers, prison guards, police officers, and justices of the peace) from wearing religious symbols when providing public services. Many political commentators denounced the move as running counter to Canadian multiculturalism and human rights. Why did the government adopt this form of state secularism? And why did it garner public support? The Challenges of a Secular Quebec provides illuminating answers to these questions and explores why many Quebecers consider the law legitimate. Contributors analyze the statute from different angles to provide a nuanced, respectful discussion of its intentions and principles. Given the province’s singular history in North America, the merits of the initiative to separate church and state must be considered within the Quebec context. The Challenges of a Secular Quebec calls for a legal interpretation of Bill 21 that is sensitive to this difference.
The Eye of the Master
In the Québécois political vision of the twentieth century, sovereignty became synonymous with mastery. French Canadians sometimes claimed solidarity with racialized and Indigenous peoples, yet they saw their liberation as a matter of taking their rightful place in the seat of the oppressors. The idea of mastery has prevented the Québécois from seeing that their liberation is bound up with that of other groups oppressed by colonial powers. The Eye of the Master confronts the missed opportunities for a decolonial version of indépendance in Quebec by examining the quest for mastery that has been at the root of every version of independence offered to the people of Quebec since the mid-twe...
Quebec Cinema in the 21st Century
This collection of ten chapters and three original interviews with Québécois filmmakers focuses on the past two decades of Quebec cinema and takes an in-depth look at a (primarily) Montreal-based filmmaking industry whose increasingly diverse productions continue to resist the hegemony of Hollywood and to exist as a visible and successful hub of French-language – and ever more multilingual – cinema in North America. This volume picks up where Bill Marshall’s 2001 Quebec National Cinema ends to investigate the inherently global nature of Quebec’s film industry and cinematic output since the beginning of the new millennium. Through their analyses of contemporary films (Une colonie, A...
Cahiers Albert Cohen N°19
« Humorialiste » : c'est par ce mot-valise (où se retrouvent l'humoriste, le moraliste et le mémorialiste) que Judith Kauffmann, enseignante à l'Université de Bar-Ilan, caractérisa naguère l'œuvre d'Albert Cohen dont elle fut l'une des meilleures spécialistes. Les Cahiers Albert Cohen rendent ici hommage à l'auteur de Grotesque et marginalité. Variations sur l'effet-Mangeclous (Peter Lang, 2000), qui nous a quittés en 2007. Certains articles sont directement en dialogue avec ses travaux et portent sur quelques-uns de ses thèmes familiers : le comique, le grotesque, la judéité , d'autres portent sur des sujets différents et fraient des voies nouvelles. Mathieu Belisle propose...
A New Approach to Global Studies from the Perspective of Small Nations
With emphasis on East Asian and North American examples – notably Japan and Quebec – Date, Laniel and their contributors take a new approach to the understanding of small nations and their role in the international system. Small nations, by their very nature, raise significant questions about what a nation is. Some small nations are sovereign states with relatively small populations and limited territory, others are nations within larger sovereign states, with distinctive cultures, governance structures or other features that differentiate them from their “parent” state. By focussing on non-European nations in particular, the contributors to this volume challenge our conceptions of w...
Au temps de la pensée pressée
Composé des «éditos» avec lesquels Jean-Philippe Pleau termine son émission radiophonique, ainsi que des articles qu’il a publiés au fil des années, Au temps de la pensée pressée est un essai à la fois personnel, littéraire et sociologique. La pensée y vagabonde librement, s’abandonnant aussi bien à l’intuition qu’à la réflexion critique, nous révélant chemin faisant un auteur qui avoue être devenu fou, qui compare les Lego à des philosophes, qui interroge ses émotions et qui partage ses lectures ainsi que le souvenir de son amitié avec Serge Bouchard.
Cahiers Albert Cohen n°21
Tous les lecteurs de Cohen ont en memoire la figure de Jeremie et son antique valise bardee d'etiquettes - qui en fait une figure par excellence de l'etranger. Solal se definit lui-meme comme seul, toujours, un etranger et sur une corde raide . En 1946, Albert Cohen eut l'occasion de rediger, dans le cadre de ses fonctions de conseiller juridique au Comite intergouvernemental pour les refugies, le texte d'un accord relatif a la delivrance aux apatrides d'un titre de voyage plus luxueux que le passeport suisse, il s'en disait fier comme de son plus beau livre . Du statut politique d'etranger a la question de l'alterite, de la condition d'apatride a l'apprehension de sa propre etrangete interi...
