Publication details
Utopie sociale et altérité dans les romans de colonisation d'Alexandre Huot et Gérard Bouchard
| Title in English | Social Utopia and Otherness in the colonization novels of Alexandre Huot and Gérard Bouchard |
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Managing Diversity and Social Cohesion: The Canadian Experience - Diversité culturelle et cohésion sociale: l'expérience canadienne |
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| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | Quebec literature - colonization novel - social utopia |
| Description | Utopia opposes, to the actual world, a hypothetical ontology, most often of a social type, which occurs both as a critic and project to transform reality. A specific kind of Utopia is the novel of colonization, which offers a variant of the American dream, namely the construction of a new society in a still untouched area situated in the fringe of the actual world. The opposition between the actual world and the social project may involve transfers, in the utopian world, of identity paradigms. As an alternative vision of society, the novel of colonization can involve elements of both individual and collective identification: i.e. it is both a vision of Self and the Other and as such, produces a certain conception of Otherness. The text proposes to examine, under this angle, two novels: L'Impératrice de l'Ungava (1927) by Alexandre Huot and Pikauba (2005) by Gérard Bouchard. |