Essays
Francophone space in Gabrielle Roy's Manitoban works
Rosemary Chapman
; University of Nottingham
Abstract
Gabrielle Roy's life and work are marked by a complex relationship between a center (metropolitan, urban, anglophone, linguistic, cultural or economic) and its margins. Born in Manitoba, Roy left the province in 1937 to end up finally in the province of Québec. Manitoba and minorities continue however to live in Roy's writing. Our article proposes a study of the four of her texts: Street of Riches, The Road Past Altamont, Children of My Heart and De quoi t'ennuies-tu, Éveline? To what extent is the Manitoban space that is presented in these novels representative of the oppositions between a minority and a majority (in terms of population) that inhabit the region? How has migration as a personal experience marked the conceptualization of space portrayed in the novels? These are the questions that will be explored.
Keywords
space; center; margins; minority vs. majority; migration
Hrčak ID:
228950
URI
Publication date:
26.11.2019.
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