Representations of the Québécois in Brian Moore's Novels

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Result language
angličtina
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Representations of the Québécois in Brian Moore's Novels
Original language description
Brian Moore (1921-1999) wrote a number of novels which included a complex portrait of the Québécois. In his first Canadian novel, The Luck of Ginger Coffee (1960), Moore presents Montreal government officials, many of them French-speaking, as less than sympathetic to the new Irish immigrant hero. In his later Canadian novels, however, Moore develops a greater sympathy for the French-speaking minority. As a former Catholic within Protestant-dominated Northern Ireland which experienced violent terrorist bombings, Moore includes insightful information about the history of French-Canadian missionary work with distinct political and cultural overtones in both Black Robe (1985) and No Other Life (1997), a fictionalized account of the early political career of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. In his neglected work, The Revolution Script (1971) Moore depicts the secular division of Canada during the period of violent upheaval surrounding the "October Crisis". Significantly, Moore appears in this work t
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I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Considering Identity: Views on Canadian Literature and History
ISBN
978-80-244-4754-4
Number of pages of the result
16
Pages from-to
141-156
Number of pages of the book
174
Publisher name
Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Place of publication
Olomouc
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