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Le métissage mythopoiétique de Jacques Ferron
| Title in English | Mythopoetic Crossbreeding in Jacques Ferron |
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Among the Quebec intellectuals who prepared and marked the Quiet Revolution, Jacques Ferron (1921-1985) stands out. The generational gap between him and the team of the journal Parti pris (1963-1968) and most of the neo-nationalist revolutionaries of the 1960s is punctuated by the personal positions he took in his work: Anglophile and Americanophile, while being attached to the Quebec cause, defender of the historical role of the Catholic Church in the midst of secularization, defender of "pure wool" nationalism, anti-French Francophile, Jacques Ferron promotes the idea of miscegenation corresponding to the integrating model of the nation (Bouchard, 2000). Like Yves Thériault or Gabrielle Roy, he was one of the first to thematize the presence of Amerindians, Métis and immigrants. The idea of cultural syncretism manifests itself notably in the mythopoetic crossbreeding of two novels Le Ciel de Québec (1969) and Le Saint-Élias (1972). The analysis focuses on the integration of the myth of the "Amerindian Orpheus" into the Western, ancient and Christian imagination, according to a national, synthetic conception of culture and writing which, in many respects, anticipates the integrating conceptions of the Italian-Quebecois and Haitian avant-gardes of the 1980s (Vice Versa, Dérives, Quaderni Culturali magazines) or those of Maurizio Gatti or Simon Harel concerning Amerindian literature. |
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