The following work is divided in two sections. In the review section, we analyse "La riviere sans repos", a collection of stories by Gabrielle Roy, published in 1970. This analysis explains the impact of the break-up of the social fabric of esquimo traditions on intergenerational interactions among families. / For quite some time, the arrival of white culture within the traditional esquimo civilization did not include the brutal and accelerated rhythm, as it has since World War II. Nevertheless, at the time where Roy sets the events in her book, between 1945 and 1968, one can definitely speak of culture shock. Hence, we would like to understand how the esquimo characters in the book react to this brutal culture change, as they are forced to question their identity along with their traditional values. In addition, we explain how these excessively rapid changes influence the interactions between four different generations. / The second section of this work, the creative section, is linked to the first by the coming together of members of a single family. " Jamais tu ne m'avais dit", a collection of short stories, includes individuals of different generations (for example, a parent and his child, a grandmother and her granddaughter), who are forced to truly communicate with one another, following an event or a recent discovery.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.20184 |
| Date | January 1997 |
| Creators | Van Dun, Aïcha. |
| Contributors | Boucher, Jean-Pierre (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Département de langue et littérature françaises.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001609071, proquestno: MQ43969, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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