Today‘s Schedule

• Rounding off: Multicultural Literature -Transcultural Literature

• Canada – USA today• Quebec in the 20th century, esp. The Quiet

Revolution• Texts in the Reader for the Final Exam: 1);

2) esp. "Distance", "Baffin Island", "49thparallel", "The Maple Leaf"; 3) esp. "From theHip"; 4; 5; 8; 11; 14; 15; 17(quickly); 18(quickly); 20; 26

Rohinton Mistry (born 1952) Tales from Firozsha Baag (1987)

Canadian entry Academy Awards 2006

Michael Ondaatje(1943); Jane Urquhart (1949)

USA - CANADA• Imperial Power; Coca-Colanization,

McWorldization; cultural/economichegemony

• Canada: 85% trade with US; NAFTA• 51st State?; De-Canadaization? Bushize

Canada?• New Canadian Administration: Prime

minister Stephen Harper (Conservativeminority government)

Quebec

• Quebec separatism: two referendums in1980 and 1995.

• pure laine=clean wool• Stephen Harper (Canadian prime minster)• Trauma, inferiority complex after 1759;

increased influence of l’église (the church)after the Conquest

• Act of Union: Durham Report - suggested toassimilate les Canadiens

Cornelius Krieghoff(1815-1871)

Maurice DuplessisPremier of Quebec until 1959

La Révolution tranquille• 1960-70• Directions: inward (traditional Quebec), outward

(Anglo-Canada)Changes:• Modernization of economic structures• End of dominant influence of the Church• Emergence of the term Québécois (not: Canadién,

Franco-Canadians)• “the time when everyone stopped going to church“• Education

Lesage - Johnson - Levesque

De Gaulle “Vive le Québeclibre!” (Expo, 1967)

Anne Hebert(1916-2000),Gaston Miron (1928-1996),

Michel Tremblay (1942)

Je parle de CECI.CECi, mon état d’infériorité collectif. CECI, qui m’agresse dansmon etre et ma qualité d’homme espèce et spécifique….Jeparle de ce qui sépare.Le non-poèmec’est mon historicité…c’est ma language que je ne sais plus reconnnaitre…l’alíenation du politique et de l’économique.Je suis malade d’un cauchemar héréditaire…Mon nom est“Amnésique Miron”.(Gaston Míron)

Or: Michel Tremblay: Les Belles-Soeures (1968) written in Joual

• Royal Commission on Bilingualism andBiculturalism (in the 60s)

• Official Languages Act: Canada is madean officially bilingual nation

• Two contradictory narratives:Quebec -Conquest: trauma; Anglo-Canada:evolution of political freedom.

Natives

• Indian Act: 1876• Strongly regulated; assimilation as a goal• Watershed after WWII: red power

movement, self-government and self-determination, land claims

• Nunavut: autonomous territory since1999.

(Geographical) regions ofCanada

• Atlantic region• St: Lawrence Lowlands• Canadian Shield• Great Plains• The Cordillera and the Rockies• The Far North