Narratology and text
Subtitle: subjectivity and identity in New France and Québécois literature
By: Paul Perron.
Series: Toronto studies in semiotics and communication
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: French-Canadian fiction -- Québec (Province) -- History and criticism.; Nationalism in literature.; Roman québécois -- Histoire et critique.; Nationalisme dans la littérature.; Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France) -- Sources.; Nouvelle-France -- Histoire -- Sources.
Genres: Sources.
Description: "In Narratology and Text, Paul Perron examines the role that literature plays in the formation of French-Canadian identity by presenting a narratological and semiotic analysis of canonical non-fictional and fictional texts from New France and Quebec.

He illustrates how citizens of French-Catholic origins living in Canada have constructed their identity by defining the self both as part of a closed community founded in race, language, and religion, and as radically opposed to the other, an omnipresent heterogeneous threat to the homogeneous group."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-328) and index.