Publication details
Le paysage montréalais dans La Brulerie d'Émile Ollivier
| Title in English | The Montreal Landscape in Émile Ollivier's La Brulerie |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Études Romanes de Brno |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Web | Digitální knihovna FF MU |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/ERB2017-1-5 |
| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | Quebec literature; migration literature; Haitian diaspora; spatial identity |
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| Description | Émile Ollivier, one of the authors of the Haitian diaspora, belongs to the Montreal and Quebec literature since the sixties. His work illustrates the complexity of the identity situation related to migration and integration (or to lack of insertion) in a host civilizational spaces. La Brulerie is one of the novels that pay a special attention to space and spatial identity. Located at the foot of Mont-Royal, overlooking St. Louis Lake and St. Lawrence River, as if it were a port facing the Caribbean Sea, the café La Brulerie is a hybrid place, an ideal Foucault’s heterotopia. The past of Haiti crosses a miscellaneous, postmodern present from which the author’s rhizomatic sensibility arises. |
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