Title: Postmodernism and the Quebec novel /
Authors: Paterson, Janet M., 1944-
Publisher: University of Toronto Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: French-Canadian fiction History and criticism.; French-Canadian fiction Québec (Province) History and criticism.; Postmodernism (Literature) Québec (Province); Roman canadien-français Histoire et critique.; Roman canadien-français Québec (Province) Histoire et critique.; Post-modernisme (Littérature) Québec (Province).; Québec (Province) Intellectual life
Abstract: In her study of postmodernism in recent Quebec fiction, Janet Paterson attempts to answer three main questions: Is there a postmodern Quebec novel? What are its forms? What are its sites of interrogation? The book looks at the works of Hubert Aquin, Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska, Gerard Bessette, Yolande Villemaire, and Jacques Godbout, and a new chapter explores the writing of Nicole Brossard. This study is representative, rather than exhaustive, as it analyses.
Contents: 1. The Postmodern Novel: Focus and Perspectives -- 2. Self-Representation: Forms and Discourses -- 3. Discourse in Question: Blackout -- 4. History on Trial: La Maison Trestler -- 5. Intertextuality in Le Semestre -- 6. A Poetics of Transformation: La Vie en prose -- 7. Writing and Bliss: D'Amour, P.Q. -- 8. Apocalypse or Renewal? Mauve Desert.