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Souveraines de corps frontaliers: Narrating Quebec's Insurgent Girlhood
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Souveraines de corps frontaliers: Narrating Quebec's Insurgent Girlhood
Yazar:
Willis, Rachel Elizabeth, author.
ISBN:
9780438091580
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1 electronic resource (295 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Danielle Marx-Scouras Committee members: Jennifer Willging; Wynne Wong.
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This dissertation reconstructs a narrative trajectory of French-Canadian girlhood in the twentieth-century through literature and film, revealing the French-Canadian girl as temporary sovereign of the contested borderland of her own body. In the works studied in this project, the girl-body emerges as a corps frontalier, a gendered borderland between childhood and womanhood, a space of no-longer/not-yet-ness that disrupts stable, traditional structures of identity and subjectivity. The girl herself, inhabitant of that body, is a troublesome subject-in-process, a figure marked by ambivalence, uncertainty, fluidity, and potentiality. She resists categorization as either child or woman, seeking instead to claim sovereignty over the territory of her body and her destiny as a girl. In many ways, she is like French-Canadian society, perpetually and actively en devenir, always working to define herself. Life in that unstable zone is at once exhilarating and exhausting, and appears untenable---but must this be the case? Or can a new conception of girlhood align with new conceptions of Quebecois(e) nationality to make it possible for both to retain the active potentiality of being mineur(e)?
In order to better understand the relationship between feminine adolescence and French-Canadian identity, this project traces the evolution of girlhood as narrated in a set of literary and cinematic works. Chapter 1, a reading of Louis Hemon's Maria Chapdelaine (1913) and Gabrielle Roy's Bonheur d'occasion (1945), addresses the conflict between traditional notions of feminine destiny in French-Canadian culture and the more subversive individual desires of the girls expected to follow those notions, revealing the heavy expectation of almost literal self-effacement imposed upon girls as French-Canadian society prioritizes survivance. The second chapter brings together Anne Claire Poirier's film La fin des etes (1964) and Anne Hebert's novel Kamouraska (1970) to engage with the question of trauma involved in the erasure of the girlhood self, bringing in Derrida's hauntology to explore the spectralization of the girl which results from her commodification in becoming a woman within traditional French-Canadian society. Chapter 3 studies the abjection of the mother in Quiet-Revolution girlhood as a violent, tragic process mirroring Quebec's exodus from the Catholic Church along the same timeline, as expressed in Gabrielle Roy's La Route d'Altamont (1966) and France Theoret's Une Belle Education (2006). Finally, Chapter 4, a study of Anne Claire Poirier's film Tu as crie Let Me Go (1997) and Nelly Arcan's novel Putain (2001), reveals a sense of lostness, stagnation, or disillusionment which overshadowed feminine adolescence (and French-Canadian society) in the latter decades of the twentieth century.
As a whole, this project reveals both the tension and possibility inherent in girlhood as an identitary borderland within the in-between identitary space of French Canadian culture. While both the Quebec girl and the Quebec nation seem to desire majority, or adult subjectivity, neither is willing to surrender her sovereignty or self-determination in order to attain it. If the French-Canadian girl is to become a "woman," or if Quebec is to become a "nation," it must be on their own terms.
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School code: 0168
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Yer Numarası | Demirbaş Numarası | Shelf Location | Lokasyon / Statüsü / İade Tarihi |
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XX(687025.1) | 687025-1001 | Proquest E-Tez Koleksiyonu | Arıyor... |
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