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      By Gagnon, Madeleine, 1938-  Aronoff, Phyllis, 1945-  Scott, Howard, 1952-
       2015., Talonbooks Call No: QWF Bio G132a   Edition: Translated ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: One of Canadaœs greatest literary figures reflects on life at the centre of Quebec literary arts. Re-examining the influences of her early life in a large, rural Catholic family, Madeleine Gagnon not only explores her rejection of unexamined values as part of her intellectual development but also her refusal to be categorized by her gender.Karl Marx replaced Paul Claudel in Gagnonœs intellectual pantheon. Psychoanalysis gave rise to the desire to write, and her first works poured out in a torrent. She describes the friendships that played such a large part in her life and the feminist battles of the time with all their hopes and disappointments. At the same time she casts a sharp eye on contemporary Quebec society, tracing the emergence of a distinct Canadian literature.This is an account of a life well lived, told with candour, wisdom, and an inextinguishable sense of wonder.
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      By Bouchard, Serge, 1947-
       2012., Boréal Call No: FR 306.097 B753c   Edition: ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Collection Papiers collésSummary Note: Avec sa manière inimitable, sur le ton de la confidence, Serge Bouchard jette un regard sensible et nostalgique sur le chemin parcouru. Son enfance, son métier dœanthropologue, sa fascination pour les cultures autochtones, pour celle des truckers, son amour de lœécriture.
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      By Cyr, Murielle
       2019., Baraka Books of Montreal Call No: QWF Fic Cyr    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: It's October 1970 in Montreal, Quebec. Nadine is a trade unionist with the garment-workers union. Twenty years earlier in 1950, at the age of 15, she was banished to a home for unwed mothers. Her baby daughter, whose father is shrouded in secrecy, was given away for adoption without her permission. This prompts her to cut all ties with her mixed Irish and French-Canadian Catholic family whose past is cluttered with secrets, betrayals, incest and violence. She vows one day she will reunite with her daughter. Following the FLQ kidnapping of a British Trade Commissioner and the Quebec Minister of Labour, Ottawa proclaims the War Measures Act and sends the army into Quebec. These staggering political events lay the foundation for a reunion between Nadine and her daughter Lisette, embittered after been bounced from one foster home to another since she was a baby. Lisette and her partner Serge, who is close to the FLQ, need money and see Nadine as a possible source based on information they've gathered about Nadine's family. World Wars I and II, the Great Depression, and the 1970 October crisis provide the backdrop to this family saga spanning some 60 years. Murielle Cyr breaks new ground by telling The Daughters' Story, an unsung, overlooked but intensely passionate tale of women, propelled by their unquenchable need to belong despite oppressive conditions hard to imagine nowadays, and who manage to survive and thrive.
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      By High, Steven
       2022., McGill Queens University Press Call No: QWF 971.4281 H638d    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Point Saint-Charles, a historically white working-class neighbourhood with a strong Irish and French presence, and Little Burgundy, a multiracial neighbourhood that is home to the city’s English-speaking Black community, face each other across Montreal’s Lachine Canal, once an artery around which work and industry in Montreal were clustered and by which these two communities were formed and divided. Deindustrializing Montreal challenges the deepening divergence of class and race analysis by recognizing the intimate relationship between capitalism, class struggles, and racial inequality. Fundamentally, deindustrialization is a process of physical and social ruination as well as part of a wider political project that leaves working-class communities impoverished and demoralized. The structural violence of capitalism occurs gradually and out of sight, but it doesn’t play out the same for everyone. Point Saint-Charles was left to rot until it was revalorized by gentrification, whereas Little Burgundy was torn apart by urban renewal and highway construction. This historical divergence had profound consequences in how urban change has been experienced, understood, and remembered. Drawing extensive interviews, a massive and varied archive of imagery, and original photography by David Lewis into a complex chorus, Steven High brings these communities to life, tracing their history from their earliest years to their decline and their current reality. He extends the analysis of deindustrialization, often focused on single-industry towns, to cities that have seemingly made the post-industrial transition. The urban neighbourhood has never been a settled concept, and its apparent innocence masks considerable contestation, divergence, and change over time. Deindustrializing Montreal thinks critically about locality, revealing how heritage becomes an agent of gentrification, investigating how places like Little Burgundy and the Point acquire race and class identities, and questioning what is preserved and for whom.
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      By Gagnon, Madeleine, 1938-
       2013., Adult, Boréal Call No: QWF FR Bio G135d    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Née à Amqui, Madeleine Gagnon se souvient avec enchantement de son enfance entourée dœune nature rayonnante, au sein dœune vaste famille qui œuvre dans la forêt et sur la terre, gens droits et fiers, mais sur lœesprit desquels règne encore indûment tout ce qui porte soutane.Lœentrée au pensionnat marque le début des grandes aventures intellectuelles et la naissance dœun profond refus qui commence à creuser ses sillons. Refus qui tranquillement remontera à la surface pendant les études en Europe, pour éclater quand la jeune femme rentrera dans un Québec méconnaissable. Marx a remplacé Claudel. La psychanalyse accompagne et favorise la venue à lœécriture, et lœœuvre surgit sous forme dœun torrent. En même temps que la femme connaît la douleur et lœéblouissement de lœenfantement, lœexaltation amoureuse et les tourments du désamour.Madeleine Gagnon raconte aussi les amitiés, primordiales, avec Annie Leclerc, Christiane Rochefort, entre autres. Les luttes féministes, avec tous les rêves et toutes les déchirures quœelles portent. Le temps qui transforme tout, la disparition des parents. Les nouvelles passions, qui seules nous permettent de continuer la route, comme celle de comprendre le lien cruel et mystérieux qui unit les femmes et la guerre.
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      By Austin, David
       2013., Adult, Between the Lines Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: "In the 1960s, for at least a brief moment, Montreal became what seemed an unlikely center of Black Power and the Caribbean left. In October 1968 the Congress of Black Writers at McGill University brought together well-known Black thinkers and activists from Canada, the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean -- people like C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael, Miriam Makeba, Rocky Jones, and Walter Rodney. Within months of the Congress, a Black-led protest at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia) exploded on the front pages of newspapers across the country -- raising state security fears about Montreal as the new hotbed of international Black radical politics"--Provided by publisher.
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      By Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
       1992., Everyman's Library Call No: Fic Dic    Availability:0 of 1     At Your LibraryOnline study guide Series Title: Penguin classicsSummary Note: Great Expectations is written in a semi-autobiographical style and is the story of the orphan Pip, writing his life from his early days of childhood until adulthood and trying to be a gentleman along the way. Novel follows Pip's development through life after an early meeting with the escaped convict Abel Magwitch, who he treats kindly despite his fear. His unpleasant sister and her humorous and friendly blacksmith husband, Joe, bring him up. Crucial to his development as an individual is his introduction to Miss Havisham, a now aging woman who has given up on life after being jilted at the altar. Cruelly, Havisham has brought up her daughter Estella to revenge her own pain and so as Pip falls in love with Estella she is made to torture him in romance. Aspiring to be a gentleman despite his humble beginnings, Pip seems to achieve the impossible by receiving a fund of wealth from an unknown source and being sent to London with the lawyer Jaggers. He is employed but eventually loses everything and Estella marries another. His benefactor turns out to have been Magwitch and his future existence is based upon outgrowing the great expectations and returning to Joe and honest laout. Eventually he is reunited with Estella.
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      By Harlick, R. J., 1946-
       c2012., Adult, Dundurn Call No: MYS Fic Har    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Meg Harris mysteries   Volume: 5Summary Note: After returning home from a trip, Meg Harris discovers that a friend's daughter has been missing from the Migiskan Reserve for more than two months. The police are indifferent, so she takes on the investigation herself, only to discover that her friend's daughter is not the only woman to go missing.
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      By Cowan, Eleanor
       2015., BookBaby Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: How could a mother not know?· This is a question often asked about families where incest has occurred, and Eleanor Cowan§s gripping memoir, A History of a Pedophile§s Wife, steps up with answers that are courageous and heartbreaking. Cowan grew up in Quebec in the 1950s, in a large Roman Catholic family with a lethal mix of violence, addiction, and toxic pedagogy. Cowan details the dance of a survivor moving into adulthood: one step forward towards freedom, two steps back into conditioning, until a tipping point of consciousness is reached. As her memoir makes clear, that tipping point is not just a critical mass of abuse or even a touchstone of personal growth. It requires an enlarged and feminist context, permission to know the unknowable, and language to name the unspeakable.