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Canadian Literature
Her Na-rra-tion,
Women's Narratives of the Canadian Nation.
Center for Research on Canadian Studies
University of Nantes (France)
June 21-23, 2007
Contact in Nantes: Françoise Le Jeune – francoise.le-jeune@univ-nantes.fr
This conference is jointly organized by the Centers for Research in Canadian Studies at the University of Nantes and Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg
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“Canada as Motherland: Theatre, Biography, and National Identity”
Pause-café / coffee-break
11h00-12h20: Nineteenth Century Narrations
Jacques Cardinal (prof agrégé, département de Littérature comparée, Université de Montréal) : « L’Héroïsme au féminin. De Blanche d’Haberville à Guillemette de Muy. »
Albert Braz (English and Comparative Literatures, University of Alberta) : “Canada’s Mohawk, Pan-Indian, Loyalist Bard: Hybridity and Collective Identity in Pauline Johnson's Writings. ”
Sarah Carter (Professor of History, University of Alberta) : “Between Prairie and Empire: The Sense of Nation in the Writing of Amelia M. Paget and Georgina Binnie-Clark.”
12h30-14h00 : déjeuner / lunch (pour les intervenants)
14h00-14h50 : Atwood on Moodie
Jennifer Chambers (Ryerson University, Toronto) : “Your place is empty”: Margaret Atwood’s Constructions of Susanna Moodie from The Journals of Susanna Moodie and Alias Grace.
Christine Evain (PRAG, Université de Nantes) : “Margaret Atwood’s de- and re-mythologizing of Susanna Moodie in the Journals.”
Pause-café / coffee-break
15h20-16h10: L’Acadie au féminin
François Giroux (Doctorant, Université de Moncton) : « Du silence à la parole chez France Daigle. »
Marie-Linda Lord (Professeur Agrégée, Université de Moncton) : « La naissance de l’Acadie urbaine chez Antonine Maillet. »
Pause-café / coffee-break
16h30-17h45: Bush v. Suburbia
Lorie-Anne Duech (Maître de conférence, Université de Caen) : “The Morals of the Northern Bush in Atwood’s Short Fiction.”
Shelley Boyd (Post-doctorate, McGill University) : “Carol Shields and the Quest for Paradise in Canadian Suburbia”
Anca-Raluca Radu (Doctoral student, Universität Marburg) : “Patria ubi mulier: Nation and Narration in Jane Urquhart’s Novel Away.”
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9h00-9h50: Resisting Quebec Narration
Christl Verduyn (Professor, Mount Allison University) : “Remembering Race to the Nation: Lorena Gale’s /Je me souviens/.”
Lianne Moyes (Professeur, Université de Montreal) : “Narrating Resistance: Gail Scott’s Citizen-Subject.”
Pause-café / coffee-break
10h20-11h35: Figures de la nation québécoise
Anne-Elaine Cliche (professeur UQAM/romancière) : « Anne Hébert : la Bible, le Verbe, comme figures de la Nation. »
Katherine A. Roberts (Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University.) : « Le roman national des femmes du Québec. »
Carmen Mata Barreiro (Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) : « L’oeuvre de Nicole Brossard : moteur de construction et d’évolution des représentations de l’identité et de la société québécoises. »
Pause-café / coffee-break
12h00-12h50: Narrating the Mosaic 1
Belén Martín-Lucas (Associate Professor, Universidad de Vigo) : "Metaphors of the (M)Otherland: The Rhetoric and Grammar of Nationalism"
Martin Kuester (Professor, Universität Marburg.) : “The Problematics of Nationality and Belonging in Mennonite Women’s Writing.”
14h00-15h15: Narrating the Mosaic 2
Rocio Davis (Associate Professor, Universidad de Navarra) : “Revisioning Positions: Vijay Agnew’s Where I Come From and Canadian National/Cultural Identity.”
Juan-Ignacio Oliva (Professor, Universidad La Laguna, Tenerife): “Homesick at Home”: (Re)presenting a national (id)entity for Indo-Canadian Women Writers.”
Eleanor Ty (Professor and Chair of English & Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario) : “Revising the Romance of the Land: Place in Immigrant Narratives by Asian Canadian Women.”
Pause-café / coffee-break
16h00-17h00: Narrating the Mosaic 3
Pilar Cuder-Dominguez (Associate Professor, Universidad Huelva): “Nation, Narration, and the Abject Self in the Fiction of Japanese Canadian Women Writers.”
Kirsten Sandrock (Doctoral student, Universität Marburg) : "Beyond the Canadian Mosaic: Gender and Race in the Poetry of Maxine Tynes"
19h30 : Dîner/ Dinner in town (pour les intervenants et présidents d’atelier)
Charlotte Sturgess et Françoise Le Jeune remercient:
Sophie Roulier, secrétariat recherche à l’UFR Langues.
Michèle Clerc-Pirot pour la couverture du programme et l’affiche.
Le Conseil Scientifique de l’Université de Nantes.
Le Conseil Scientifique de l’Université Marc Bloch – Strasbourg 2.
Le Centre de Recherche sur les Identités Nationales et l’Interculturalité (CRINI).
Les Centres d’Etude sur le Canada de des Universités de Nantes et Marc Bloch.
Les Affaires Etrangères et Commerce international Canada, Gouvernement du Canada
Canadensis Series
Her Na-rra-tion, Women's Narratives of the Canadian Nation.
This conference reflects on Canada as a “textual” nation. Through the examination of texts written by Canadian women or women living in Canada, international specialists coming from the fields of literature and history reflect on the writing, conception or making of the Canadian nation, as well as on national identity writing.
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