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Mindscapes of Montréal: Québec's Urban Novel, 1960-2005 (French and Francophone Studies)
Author(s): Ceri Morgan (Author)
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication Date: 15 Jan. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780708325339
- ISBN-13: 0708325335
Book Description
In examining a number of francophone Montréal novels from 1960 to 2005, this interdisciplinary study considers the ways in which these connect with material landscapes to produce a city of neighbourhoods. In so doing, it reflects on how Montréal has been seen as both home and not home for francophone Quebecers. Morgan offers an overview of the fiction; examines micro and macro geographies of Montréal, and identifies some key literary trends. In so doing, it reflects on the importance of the imaginary in our experiencing and understanding of the urban.
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Review
Mindscapes of Montreal: Québec’s urban novel, 1960-2005 is a gem of a book. Highly readable, it moves out from its large corpus of Montreal novels to fill in the aesthetic, social and political backdrops against which these novels were written. Then Morgan moves back into the novels themselves, capturing each book’s formal innovations and engagements with the complex cultural and linguistic geographies of Montreal. The author’s treatment of Quebecois literature overall is comprehensive and well-informed, but the appeal of the book extends far beyond the field of literary scholarship. Mindscapes of Montreal has a great deal to offer those, like myself, engaged in urban cultural studies, or others interested in Quebec culture in a general sense. –Professor William Straw, Director, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
About the Author
Ceri Morgan is lecturer in the School of Humanities at Keele University.
