Contents ­ Table des matires
0. NATIONAL CULTURE AS A NATURAL PHENOMENON? ................................................................................................................ 6
ÉVIDENCE D'UNE CULTURE NATIONALE? (Petr Kyloušek)
I. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 13
I.1. Identité, lacité, tolérance ­ questionnements (Petr Horák) ................................................................... 13
I.1.1. Tolérance ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 14
I.1.2. Reconnaissance ....................................................................................................................................................................... 16
I.1.3. Validité de la reconnaissance ........................................................................................................................................ 17
I.1.4. Situation canadienne ....................................................................................................................................................... 21
I.2. Dimension noétique de l'art (Petr Kyloušek).......................................................................................................... 24
I.2.1 Langue et image....................................................................................................................................................................... 26
I.2.2. Image de soi et image de l'autre ­ modles identitaires ........................................................................... 27
II. IDENTITÉ CANADIENNE DANS LE CONTEXTE HISTORIQUE.......................................................................................................... 31
CANADIAN IDENTITY IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT
II.1. Littérature nationale et son institutionalisation ­ versant canadien-français
et québécois (Petr Kyloušek) ............................................................................................................................................... 31
II.1.1. Littérature nationale et langue nationale dans le contexte canadien-français ......................... 39
II.1.2. La dépériphérisation du point de vue canadien-français......................................................................... 42
II.2. The Constitution and Institutionalization of Canadian National Literature
From the English-Canadian Perspective (Klára Kolinská) ..................................................................... 44
II.2.1. The Question of National Literature In the English-Canadian Context .................................... 46
II.2.2. Considerations Regarding the Post-colonial Condition............................................................................. 55
III. LITTÉRATURE CANADIENNE-FRANÇAISE ET QUÉBÉCOISE ........................................................................................................... 57
III.1. Identité et mémoire (Petr Kyloušek) ......................................................................................................................... 57
III. 2. Image de l'Anglais et du Canadien-Anglais (Petr Kyloušek) ........................................................... 58
III.2.1. Comment représenter un Anglais? ......................................................................................................................... 58
III.2.2. Comment tuer un Anglais (Canadien-Français) en soi-mme ...................................................... 69
III.2.3. Comment accepter un Anglais  autre  ................................................................................................ 76
III.3. Le Québec et la France (Petr Kyloušek) ................................................................................................................ 80
III.4. Les Canadiens-Français et les États-Uniens (Eva Voldřichová Beránková) ........................... 95
III.4.1. Le Québec et les États-Unis d'Amérique ............................................................................................................ 95
III.4.2. Les États-Unis dans le roman québécois contemporain ...................................................................... 106
III.5. Premires nations dans la littérature canadienne-française
et québécoise (Petr Kyloušek) ...................................................................................................................................... 112
III.6. Étranger dans la littérature canadienne-française
et québécoise (Petr Kyloušek) .................................................................................................................................... 126
IV. ENGLISH-CANADIAN LITERATURE ..................................................................................................................................................... 141
IV.1. The Development of the Independent English-Canadian
Literary Imaginary (Klára Kolinská) ..................................................................................................................... 141
IV.2. Stories of the New Land: Transformations of Prose Fiction Forms
in English Canada (Klára Kolinská) ...................................................................................................................... 142
IV.2.1. The Story of Canadian Literature .................................................................................................................... 142
IV.2.2. From the Sketch Towards the Novel Cycle ................................................................................................... 144
IV.2.3. Story Cycle ­ The New Genre of Canadian National Literature ................................................ 148
IV.2.4. The Manawaka cycle of Margaret Laurence .............................................................................................. 150
IV.2.5. The Unbelonging of Mordecai Richler .......................................................................................................... 156
IV.2.6. Literary Genres and National Identity .......................................................................................................... 161
IV.3. Hugh MacLennan's Canadian Solitudes (Klára Kolinská) ............................................................... 163
IV.4. "Sitting on a fence:" Canadian Literature Between First
and Second Nations (Klára Kolinská) ................................................................................................................. 166
IV.5. Essaying the Literary Landscapes of Anglophone
Canada (Kateřina Prajznerová) .................................................................................................................................. 175
IV.5.1. Regionalism and Canadian Identities ........................................................................................................... 177
IV.5.2. Settling the Southern Ontario Lake Country: Catharine Parr Traill
as a Literary Ethnobotanist and "a Walking Encyclopedia of Flowers".................................. 180
IV.5.2.1. Traill's Pearls and Pebbles; or, Notes of an Old Naturalist
as a collection of rambles ...................................................................................................................................... 183
IV.5.2.2. Traill becomes a settler ........................................................................................................................................... 185
IV.5.3. Logging the British Columbia Rainforest: Martin Allerdale Grainger as a Labor
Reporter and a "Republic of Cells in Danger of Revolt" ......................................................................... 188
IV.5.3.1. Grainger's Woodsmen of the West as a collection of travel accounts ......................................................... 189
IV.5.3.2. Grainger becomes a local trail guide .................................................................................................................. 192
IV.5.4. Farming the Annapolis River Valley of Northern Nova Scotia: Ernest Buckler
as a Landscape Ethnographer and "a Country Bumpkin" ................................................ 195
IV.5.4.1. Buckler's Ox Bells and Fireflies: A Memoir as a collection of farm essays ................................................. 198
IV.5.4.2. Buckler becomes a neighbor ................................................................................................................................ 200
IV.5.5. Ranching the Southwestern Saskatchewan Plains: Sharon Butala
as a Spiritual Seeker and "a Western Canadian Hybrid" ..................................................... 202
IV.5.5.1. Butala's Wild Stone Heart: An Apprentice in the Fields as a collection of solitude essays ................... 204
IV.5.5.2. Butala becomes a dweller ........................................................................................................................................ 205
IV.5.6. Refining the Map of Anglophone Canadian Literary Landscapes .............................. 207
V. REPRESENTATION OF THE OTHER IN CANADIAN FILM (TOMÁŠ POSPÍŠIL) ............................................................... 209
V.1. Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 209
V.2. General Characteristics of Canadian Film: Themes, Characters,
Traditions, Genres, Language ....................................................................................................................................... 211
V.3. Canadian Film Institutions and the Production of Canadian Identity ..................................... 218
V.3.1. National Film Board, Office national du film, NFB/ONF ............................................................. 220
V.4. Four Key Canadian Feature Films .............................................................................................................................. 225
V.4.1. Introduction .............................................................................................................................................................................. 225
V.4.2. Realistic Beginnings of the Canadian Film Revival: Don Shebib,
Goin' Down the Road (1970) ......................................................................................................................................... 226
V.4.3. Canadian Auteur Film in the Nineteen-Eighties ..................................................................................... 229
V.4.3.1. Denys Arcand, Decline of the American Empire
(Le déclin de l'empire américain, 1986) ............................................................................................ 229
V.4.3.2. Atom Egoyan, Family Viewing, 1987 ........................................................................................................ 235
V.4.4. Canadian Post-modern, Ethnic Film: Shrinivas Krishna, Masala (1991) ........................... 238
VI. SOLITUDES CANADIENNES ET LA PERCEPTION DE L'AUTRE / ...................................................................................................... 246
CANADIAN SOLITUDES AND THE PERCEPTION OF THE OTHER (Petr Kyloušek)
BIBLOGRAPHY/BIBLIOGRAPHIE ..................................................................................................................................................................... 257
INDEX ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 275