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Language in Canada
Language in Canada provides an up-to-date account of the linguistic and cultural situation in Canada, primarily from a sociolinguistic perspective. The strong central theme connecting language with group and identity will offer insights into the current linguistic and cultural tension in Canada. The book provides comprehensive accounts of the original 'charter' languages, French and English, as well as the aboriginal and immigrant varieties which now contribute to the overall picture. It explains how they came into contact - and sometimes into conflict - and looks at the many ways in which they weave themselves through and around the Canadian social fabric. The public policy issues, particularly official bilingualism and educational policy and language, are also given extensive coverage. Non-specialists as well as linguists will find in this volume, a companion to Language in Australia, Language in the USA and Language in the British Isles, an indispensable guide and reference to the linguistic heritage of Canada.
Acadiensis
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Histoire de l'Acadie
En 2004, l'Acadie aura 400 ans, comme nous l'apprend ce livre qui retrace les grandes périodes de la vie de ce coin de pays. A travers l'expérience des Amérindiens, des femmes, des notables, des riches et des pauvres, les deux spécialistes de l'histoire acadienne évoquent les enjeux politiques et économiques de la colonisation, des débuts à la situation actuelle, alors que les Acadiens des provinces maritimes s'affirment de plus en plus. Avec quelques photos en noir et blanc et une solide bibliographie. [SDM].
Clio en Acadie
Ce collectif concerne l'historiographie acadienne dans le sens du regard que portent les historiens sur le passé acadien. II mobilise l'histoire en tant qu'elle est un retour de la pensée, de la conscience historique sur elle-même. Reliant en un tout l'histoire de l'histoire, la sociographie, l'épistémologie et la philosophie de l'histoire, il se veut une réflexion sur le métier d'historien en Acadie - qui examine donc ses fondements, ses objets, ses parcours, ses finalités. Ce livre se penche sur l'historiographie qui à la fois accompagne la Révolution acadienne (c. 1960-) et en découle. Pour autant, il ne manque pas de remonter aux origines de la discipline en Acadie et d'en son...
Paroles et regards de femmes en Acadie
Les noms d’Antonine Maillet, Marguerite Maillet et de Mathilda Blanchard – pour ne relever que celles-ci – viennent à l’esprit lorsqu’il s’agit d’identifier des femmes ayant grandement contribué à la construction et à la reconnaissance de l’Acadie. Telle qu’elle se définit, la place de ces femmes dans le discours institutionnel paraît souvent marginale et est rarement présentée dans une perspective féministe, si ce n’est de manière ponctuelle. Ainsi, parmi les grands champs d’investigation qui retiennent l’attention dans les études acadiennes, l’histoire des femmes occupe une place bien secondaire au profit d’un discours essentiellement préoccupé par ...
Tricks with a Glass
Studies of literary reflections on ethnicity are essential to the ever-renewed definition of Canadian literature. The essays in this collection explore the diverse ways of negotiating identity and the articulation of space in Canada, taking ethnicity as a driving force with ideological and cultural implications that lend public and literary discourse an urgent dynamism. While theorizing ethnicity is a valuable critical enterprise, these essays centre on the concrete realization of the problematics of ethnicity in creative writing, covering a wide range of Canada's mosaic. The creative inscription of ethnicity stimulates the evolution and expansion of Canada's literary heritage, the complexit...
Tricks with a Glass
Studies of literary reflections on ethnicity are essential to the ever-renewed definition of Canadian literature. The essays in this collection explore the diverse ways of negotiating identity and the articulation of space in Canada, taking ethnicity as a driving force with ideological and cultural implications that lend public and literary discourse an urgent dynamism. While theorizing ethnicity is a valuable critical enterprise, these essays centre on the concrete realization of the problematics of ethnicity in creative writing, covering a wide range of Canada's mosaic. The creative inscription of ethnicity stimulates the evolution and expansion of Canada's literary heritage, the complexit...
Remembering and Forgetting in Acadie
Conducting interviews and collecting the opinions of Acadians, Anglophones, and First Nations, Rudin examines the variety of ways in which the past is publicly presented and remembered.
Canada's Francophone Minority Communities
By the late 1950s Canada's Francophone and Acadian minority communities were in rapid decline. Demographic, economic, socio-cultural, institutional, and political factors that had sustained both the concept and the reality of French Canada for well over a century were being eliminated or transformed at an unprecedented rate. To survive, these beleaguered minority communities set out to conquer the challenges of rebuilding their provincial and national organizations, training a new generation of leaders, redefining their respective provincial and national identities, elaborating new political and constitutional policies and strategies for survival and expansion, and then defending and securin...
At the Ocean's Edge
At the Ocean's Edge offers a vibrant account of Nova Scotia's colonial history, situating it in an early and dramatic chapter in the expansion of Europe. Between 1450 and 1850, various processes – sometimes violent, often judicial, rarely conclusive – transferred power first from Indigenous societies to the French and British empires, and then to European settlers and their descendants who claimed the land as their own. This book not only brings Nova Scotia's struggles into sharp focus but also unpacks the intellectual and social values that took root in the region. By the time that Nova Scotia became a province of the Dominion of Canada in 1867, its multicultural peoples, including Mi'kmaq, Acadian, African, and British, had come to a grudging, unequal, and often contested accommodation among themselves. Written in accessible and spirited prose, the narrative follows larger trends through the experiences of colourful individuals who grappled with expulsion, genocide, and war to establish the institutions, relationships, and values that still shape Nova Scotia's identity.
