Le Québec de la Nouvelle France à la Révolution Tranquille

3 Credits.

This seminar examines the diverse body of texts that served to generate a sense of Québec collective identity from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. We will begin to chart the ever-shifting notion of Québécité with the histories of colonial New France, proceed to explore the journalism engagé of Étienne Parent and Arthur Buies as well as the anti-British writings of François-Xavier Garneau and the celebrated novel of Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, Les Anciens Canadiens (1863). Other works to be studied include the supernatural tales from late nineteenth-century folklore, the modern roman du terroir (novel of the countryside), and the documentaries of Albert Tessier from the second quarter of the twentieth century. Taught in French.