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Singaravélou, Pierre et Venayre, Sylvain (s.l.d.). Le Magasin du monde : La mondialisation par les objets du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours
No full textChair Piment de Gisèle Pineau : au-delà de la vengeance, surmonter l\u27impardonnable
No full textLa question de la vengeance est posée de manière particulièrement percutante dans un des nombreux romans de Gisèle Pineau, Chair Piment, paru en 2002. Au centre de l‘intrigue s‘agite Mina, une jeune Guadeloupéenne exilée à Paris et hantée par le fantôme de sa soeur Rosalia, morte dans un incendie 20 ans plus tôt. Dans les coulisses, se tient Suzon dont le lecteur découvre peu à peu la passion vengeresse qui la pousse à exercer des « représailles surnaturelles » sur toute la famille de Melchior, père de Mina, pour avoir été abandonnée jadis, par Melchior. S‘appuyant de façon générale sur la sociocritique et la poétique des genres, notre analyse du roman s‘intéresse aux langages et discours déployés dans ce traitement quelque peu fantastique du thème de la vengeance. Derrière ce mélodrame passionnel se profilent plusieurs questionnements aboutissant à un discours aux accents didactiques qui suggère une bonne et une mauvaise voie à suivre, à la manière des contes. Ce ne sera donc pas la vengeance qui guérira le mal subi mais bien plutôt la magie de la parole. The question of vengeance appears in a particularly striking fashion in one of Gisèle Pineau‘s many novels, Chair Piment, published in 2002. At the centre of the story is Mina, a young Guadeloupan woman living in exile in Paris and haunted by the ghost of her sister Rosalia who was killed in a fire 20 years earlier. Waiting in the wings is Suzon, whom the reader slowly discovers is harbouring a vengeful passion that will push her to exert a “supernatural retaliation”on the entire family of Mina‘s father Melchior for his having abandoned her years earlier. Drawing from sociocriticism and the poetics of genre, this analysis will look at the language and discourse used in this somewhat fantastic treatment of the theme of vengeance. Amid this passionate melodrama lurk questions that provoke a discourse that is at times didactic, suggesting, as in fairy tales, that there is a right and a wrong path to follow. It is not vengeance that will cure the evils of the past but the magic of the spoken word
Maritime marine life. Field guide to fishes, invertebrates and plants of the Northwest Atlantic
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Nova Scotia: the Protohistoric Period 1500-1630 (Curatorial Report #75)
No full textTechnically, the protohistoric period in the Maritimes could be said to have begun about 1000 A.D., with the venturing of Norse ships into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Evidence for their presence in this area, however, is as yet sparse: the recovery from the L\u27Anse aux Meadows Norse site in Newfoundland of several butternuts, and a butternut burl worked with metal tools. Due to the scarcity of historical records for this period of Norse exploration, protohistory in the Maritimes really can only be said to begin with the sixteenth century, after the voyages of John and Sebastian Cabot had informed the Old World of the vast fisheries to be exploited on the Grand Banks. Knowledge of Native life takes a quantum leap with the opening of this era. For the first time since humans came into this continent, their actual words-rather than the mute speech of lithic fragments-are recoverable. With the beginning of the sixteenth century, a whole range of ephemera-thoughts, songs, stories, ways of looking at the world--can be accessed. It is a tremendous turning point. The ethnographic sources now available, combined with the archaeological information, deepen exponentially knowledge of the area. With the arrival in the New World of the written word one can begin to put flesh on the bones of the archaeological evidence. _____________________________________________________________________ Please note: This resource is presented as originally published. The content of older reports may not reflect the current state of knowledge on the topic documented. Please be aware of this when using this resource
Tips for starting a young adult dystopian book club
No full textThis article discusses the value of book clubs for teen development and provides tips for how to start one
Introduction to Escapism
No full textThis brief introduction will establish this YA Hotline issue‘s theme of escapism and provide rationale for the theme‘s selection
Let\u27s Make Mini Comics: Program Plan
No full textThis program plan provides suggestions and materials for a 1.5-hour session on making minicomics. Topics covered in this program range from folding a minicomic to creating characters to outlining a story. Attendees will leave the session with a completed mini-comic in-hand and the confidence to continue creating their own comics at home
