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Rewriting Maternal Connections in Quebec: Anne Hébert "Le Permier jardin" Thursday, November 1 Beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, much of the literature
and criticism treating the recent, and extraordinary, change in
the role and the image of the Quebec
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mother
was reactive. The formerly much admired Quebec mother (of an invariably
very large family) was vilified in literature, and many critical
studies portrayed her, and even childbearing itself, as an impediment
to any kind of progress for women. After this abrupt rejection of
traditional views of Quebec motherhood, came a tentative exploration
of what it means to be both a woman and a mother in contemporary
society. My aim is to rethink the realities of motherhood in modern
society through a reading Anne Hébert’s 1988 novel,
Le Premier jardin (The First Garden). |
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