En marge de l’histoire : le traitement du passé dans trois romans québécois contemporains
This thesis focuses on the representation of the «past tense» in three contemporary Quebec novels, La constellation du lynx by Louis Hamelin, Pourquoi Bologne by Alain Farah and Jonas de mémoire by Anne Élaine Cliche. These narratives share an obsession for the past that drives the narrators to investigate problematic and unknown episods that the texts explore while keeping it at a distance. The structure of these texts creates and maintains this gap with the past whose access is always indirect. The analysis of narration and narrators shows how these varying degrees of distance remain dynamic. These novels install also a distance in their uses of the past with the step back they take from established facts and preconceived ideas. The explored past is interpreted and transformed by fiction that proposes a rereading of it. The hypothesis of this thesis, based on « sociocritique », questions the role of fiction and its ability to reveal aspects of the past that remain unattainable to other research fields, especially to History who seeks to eliminate subjectivity.
Sociocritique Past History Quebec contemporary literature La constellation du lynx Pourquoi Bologne Jonas de mémoire