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Translated from the 1990 French edition that won the Gabrielle Roy Prize for literary criticism. Paterson (French, U. of Toronto) investigates whether there is such a creature as a postmodern Quebec novel, what its forms are, and what are its sites of interrogation. Considers a representative sampling of writers including Hubert Aquin, Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska, and Jacques Godbout. Canadian call number: C94-932014-5. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

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In her study of postmodernism in recent Quebec fiction, Janet Paterson attempts to answer three main questions: Is there a postmodern Quebec novel? What are its forms? What are its sites of interrogation? The book looks at the works of Hubert Aquin, Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska, Gerard Bessette, Yolande Villemaire, and Jacques Godbout, and a new chapter explores the writing of Nicole Brossard. This study is representative, rather than exhaustive, as it analyses postmodern textual strategies in terms of discourse, intertextuality, the representation of the writer in fiction, the process of history, and feminist expression. Paterson believes that, in order to view a novel from a postmodernist perspective, it is necessary to see it as a temporal phenomenon, subject to the ambient culture.

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