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Equivocal City - French and English Novels of Postwar Montreal (Paperback)
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Equivocal City - French and English Novels of Postwar Montreal (Paperback)
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The study of Montreal as a specific location in French and English
writings has long been subordinated to the demands of
linguistically divided and politically contentious narratives about
national development. In this cross-linguistic study, Patrick
Coleman models an inclusive and post-national literary history of
the city itself. Tracing a sequence of moments in the emergence of
the Montreal novel from World War II to the turbulent 1960s,
Equivocal City offers close readings of fourteen key works of
fiction, focusing on the inner dynamic of their construction as
well as the unexpected convergences and contrasts in the narrative
structures they adopt and the aesthetic perspective they seek to
achieve. Critically sophisticated but accessibly written, this book
gives a sympathetic account of how writers in both languages
struggled to give integrated artistic expression to their
experience of a city that was still linguistically
compartmentalized and culturally insecure. By analyzing the
interplay between story and narrative form, the book explores what
French and English novelists could - and could not - imagine about
the Montreal they sought to portray. From the responsible realism
of Hugh MacLennan and Gabrielle Roy to the fractious
phantasmagorias of Jacques Ferron and Leonard Cohen, Equivocal City
traces the evolution of the Montreal novel with the aim of
retrieving a shareable literary past.
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