L'echo d'un peuple
Subtitle: Franco-Ontarian myths of national identity
By: by Darryl Leroux.
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: French-Canadians -- Ontario -- Ethnic identity.; French-Canadians -- Ontario -- Attitudes.; French-Canadians -- Ontario -- History.
Other titles: Franco-Ontarian myths of national identity.
Description: Throughout this study I examine the ways in which Franco-Ontarian historical narratives rely on racial, gender, national and territorial hierarchies that interpellate Franco-Ontarian subjects into stories of origins. I do so by analyzing two important sites where these dominant historical narratives are expressed. The first is what I have termed Franco-Ontarian historiography and includes the amalgam of contemporary historical representations that carve out a specifically Franco-Ontarian place in the nation. The other is my main research site: L'Echo d'un Peuple, an outdoor cultural production that takes place in rural Eastern Ontario. Through an analysis of these two sites, I demonstrate how myths that celebrate the enterprising French Canadian male settler produce and maintain the above-mentioned hierarchies. In the end, I argue that what these narratives do is help Franco-Ontarians imagine and narrate our place in the nation as white settlers innocent of conquest.
Notes: Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 117-121)

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