Narratology and text

By Paul Perron

Subjects: Nationalisme dans la littérature, Nationalism in literature, French-Canadian fiction, Sources, Histoire, History and criticism, Histoire et critique, Roman québécois, History, Canadian literature, history and criticism

Description: "In Narratology and Text, Paul Perron examines the role that literature plays in the formation of French-Canadian identity by presenting a narratological and semiotic analysis of canonical non-fictional and fictional texts from New France and Quebec. He illustrates how citizens of French-Catholic origins living in Canada have constructed their identity by defining the self both as part of a closed community founded in race, language, and religion, and as radically opposed to the other, an omnipresent heterogeneous threat to the homogeneous group."--BOOK JACKET.