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Ladataan... Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through QuebecTekijä: Taras Grescoe
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. I picked this up in the library. Having lived in Quebec through much of the period he writes about I was curious to see another's impressions. Contrary to the title, this is a whitewashed version of reality. For example he quotes Bouchard as saying, in the lead up to the referendum, that Quebec needs more children. What Bouchard actually said was that Quebec needed white francophone women to have more children. The misquote represents the author's sugar-coated wishful thinking about the province during the past. ( ) The sub-title is misleading. The author buys into the nationalist re-writing of Quebec's history although his account of native people's issues doesn't follow the straight and narrow path thankfully. Regardless this is a wide-ranging book with many fascinating moments and portraits - well worth reading. Remember throughout that the account is very sentimental in essence. näyttää 3/3 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Winner of the 2000 Quebec Writers' Federation First Book Award and the Mavis Gallant Prize for Nonfiction A hip, enlightening portrait of a place most Canadians find baffling: Quebec without the politics. Why do three million Quebecers tune in the same absurd sitcom every week? How did they get the nickname "pepsis"? Why does Celine Dion put on a down-home accent when she returns to her home province? For referendum-weary English Canadians, Quebec is an enigma wrapped in a yawn. Taras Grescoe treats the province as an exotic destination. He takes readers onto the shuffleboard courts of Florida, to a francophone country-and-western festival in rural Mauricie, to the caf#65533; tables of expatriate Quebecers in Paris. He deconstructs a Montreal Canadiens hockey game, explores the stunning diversity of Quebec's newspapers, and dismantles Bombardier snowmobiles. En route, he meets Mohawk Warriors, Yiddish-speaking French Canadians, and the UFO-obsessed followers of Ra#65533;l. Informed and incisive, Sacr#65533; Blues explores the heart of contemporary Quebec: its love-hate relationship with France and the United States; the dance, theatre, and literary productions celebrated in Europe but little known here; its fears about distinctness on an increasingly uniform continent. Along the way we meet such Quebec residents as the playwright Michel Tremblay and the novelist Neil Bissoondath, Teleglobe CEO Charles Sirois and the arctic explorer Bernard Voyer, the foul-mouthed columnist Pierre Foglia and the esteemed philosopher Charles Taylor. Sacr#65533; Blues serves up a spicy, irreverent, inside view of this unique and little-known part of North America. With side orders of poutine, maple syrup, and Vachon snack cakes. And scarcely a mention of Lucien Bouchard. From the Hardcover edition. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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