Honte et devenir : d’Annie Ernaux aux littératures francophones du Canada aujourd’hui

• Authors: Adina Balint

Title variants

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Shame and Transformation: From Annie Ernaux to Canadian Francophone Literature Today

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

This article draws on the psychoanalytic theories of shame by Boris Cyrulnik to explore various literary representations of shame in Canadian francophone literature today. By comparing Annie Ernaux’s discourse on shame with excerpts from Kim Thúy and Pascal Janovjak (À toi), Sergio Kokis (Le Pavillon des miroirs) and Régine Robin (La Québécoite), I study the dynamics of interculturalism (G. Bouchard, P. Imbert, P. Ouellet) in contemporary francophone Canadian literature. Thus, I emphasise the irreductible impact of mobility, transformation and life experiences in the cultivation of shared cultural values.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: Cahiers ERTA
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 123-143

Dates

published

2017-06-01

Contributors

author

Adina Balint