Book Reviews
2013; American Council for Québec Studies; Volume: 56; Linguagem: Inglês
10.3828/qs.2014.11
ISSN2052-1731
Autores Tópico(s)Cultural Identity and Heritage
ResumoThis article examines (post)nationalism in recent Quebecois cinema. I study the films Heartbeats (2010) by Xavier Dolan and Night #1 (2011) by Anne Emond, which portray personal stories of love and lust. Looking at the link between intimate and political relationships, I investigate what the new tendency to portray today’s disillusioned youths’ unfulfilled romantic fantasies tells us about how contemporary Quebec identifies, connects with, and defines itself in opposition to the Other. This phenomenon appears to be all the more prominent in Quebec since Quebec’s national identity has historically been defined “in opposition,” alternately to the British colonizer, to the rest of English-speaking Canada, to the English-speaking minority within Quebec, and more recently to immigrants from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds. Thus I suggest that Quebec’s exclusionary model of identity has been incorporated in the construction of personal identity, leaving today’s youth longing for a closeness that...
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