This Master's thesis aims to demonstrate that the history of the suburb happened in two phases, creating two kinds of suburbs: "countryside-suburbs" and "new generation suburbs," which can be found in literary texts. The first chapter traces the social history ofthe suburb. The second chapter analyzes texts by Jacques Ferron in which he describesthe countryside-suburb. The third chapter takes a look at Dee by Michel Delisle, whichnot only portrays the countryside-suburb (like Ferron), but also evokes the newgeneration suburb. The countryside-suburb has a natural, rural aspect, and it has a certainin stability due its bordering the city. The new generation suburb is a place where the rural aspect is vanishing, and where the sense of instability seems more ideological than material. It is a place where the American Dream has been realized according to the script, but has generated a feeling of emptiness. / Ce mémoire vise a demontrer qu'il existe deux types de banlieues dans la littérature québecoise: les "banlieues-campagnes" et les "banlieues nouvelle generation". Le premier chapitre considère la socio-histoire de la banlieue québecoise. Le deuxième explore quelques textes de Jacques Ferron ou des traces de la banlieue campagne peuvent etre observées. Le troisième chapitre fait ressortir, dans le roman Deede Michael Delisle, des éléments définitionnels de la banlieue-campagne semblables à ceux décelés chez Ferron: un aspect natural, une certaine ruralité et une instabilité attribuable au caractère limitrophe de ce lieu par rapport a la ville. Ce chapitre traite aussi des aspects de la banlieue nouvelle génération, une nature domptée, un lieu ou la ruralité n'a plus préseance, une instabilité moins materielle qu'ideologique. Ce mémoire conclut que la banlieue nouvelle génération est le résultat d'un American Dream consommé ou un grand vide s'est immiscé.

Marvelous Realism is a continuous source of debate in the world of research. Restricted to latino-american literature for ones, open to all literatures for others, this style suffers from a lack of unanimity. This is the reason why I have chosen to begin my thesis with a panoramic view of this style and identify its founders. Subsequently, I will try to establish the distinctions between Magic and Marvelous Realism through the thesis of Charles Scheel and Ook Chung. / Those precisions made, I shall analyse the presence of Marvelous Realism in Ferron's Contes with the stylistic and/or structural traits of Mary-Ellen Ross, Charles Scheel, Cecilia Ponte and Irlemar Chiampi among others. / The second part of my thesis is composed of short stories that will enlightened, by the events, or by the narration, certain aspects of Marvelous Realism.

The purpose of the analytical part of this master's paper is to specify the signification of the voyage motive considered as the theme of some of the stories in Jacques Ferron's Contes. This theme consists in being at the basis of both travel narratives and tales structure. It is a matter of studying, on the one hand, how the author is spiritually in line with these stories and on the other hand, how he distinguishes himself by his singular use of them. / Two tales, "La vache morte du canyon" and "Cadieu" are analyzed, in the first part, according to literary theories applied on travel narratives. Ferron's versions of this type of stories are particular in that they favour the theme of the return from banishment. The second part of this work treats of the tale "Les Mechins", in which the themes remind the rituals of initiation in tribal societies. The effective displacement achieved by the hero appears as an interiorized voyage rather than a social one. The author transposes, from preexisting but inadequate material to explain the modern society, a new vision of the becoming of the self. / In the creative part of the paper, eleven tales present the introspective reflexion of individuals who have to get over an important period into their life. The flow of the river along which the characters live is a fundamental element determining the way they can go through the learning process. The goal is to reconcile with personal and peculiar destiny.

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Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

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