Between Languages and Cultures
：Colonial and Postcolonial Readings of Gabrielle Roy
Publication subTitle ：Colonial and Postcolonial Readings of Gabrielle Roy
Publisher： McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication year： 2009
E-ISBN: 9780773575806
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780773534964
Subject： I06 Literature, Literature Appreciation
Keyword： 文学
Language： ENG
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Description
Gabrielle Roy is one of the best-known figures of Québec literature, yet she spent much of the first thirty years of her life studying, working, and living in English. For Roy, as a member of Manitoba's francophone minority, bilingualism was a necessary strategy for survival and success. How did this bilingual and bicultural background help shape her work as a writer in French? The implications of her linguistic and cultural identity are explored in chapters looking at education, language, translation, and the representation of Canada's other minorities, from the immigrants in Western Canada to the Inuit of Ungava. What emerges is a new reading of Roy's work.