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This essay will wade into the debate about what distinguishes English-language writing in Quebec from the rest of English-Canadian writing by focussing on theatre. It begins with the premise that Anglo-Quebec writing since the 1970s is a response to Quebec nationalism and language policies, as well as a sign of acceptance of Quebec as a distinct society and an acknowledgment of the heterogeneity of the minority Anglo-Quebec community. The plays that we categorize as Anglo-Québécois reflect the influence of living in a francophone environment, have some political content, and dramatize the historical memory of a particular segment of the anglophone or allophone communities. By examining works by David Fennario, Marianne Ackerman, Lorena Gale, Vittorio Rossi, Stephen Orlov, Endre Far-kas, Rahul Varma, and others, the author demonstrates that Anglo-Québécois theatre enacts what Charles Taylor calls "deep diversity" by performing different Canadian and Quebec identities and different ways of belonging. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay is a reflection on the essays, articles, prefaces, and interviews of three contemporary anglophone writer-translators from Quebec: Philip Stratford, David Homel, and Gail Scott. Based on the premise that writer-translators maintain a privileged relationship with the space between languages and cultures, which they are bound to explore through translation and writing, the question is to determine the extent to which Stratford, Homel, and Scott have contributed to building an Anglo-Québécois identity and literature since the early 1980s. Their respective discourses on literature and translation, being symptomatic of three different intellectual approaches, reveal, on the one hand, the unstable, plurivocal, and evolving nature of this identity and literature and, on the other, a striking homology between these objects and the translation processes. It is this homology that the essay strives to emphasize. The accent is on the images of multiculturalism and forms of creativity that flow from writer-translators' knowledge of the languages-cultures with/between which they work and the modalities according to which they negotiate the difficult passage separating these two entities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inspired by Alan Filewod's "Performing Canada: The Nation Enacted in the Imagined Theatre," this essay proposes that Premier Lucien Bouchard's "Address to the Anglophone Community of Quebec" in the wake of the 1995 referendum and the premiere of David Fennario's play, "The Death of René Lévesque," both of which took place at Montreal's Centaur Theatre, were performances of Anglo Quebec and enactments of an Anglo-Québécois subject. The essay questions why the sense of a distinct community and corresponding subject positions have not taken greater hold in the aftermath of these performances, and hypothesizes a competition of narratives between a myth of two solitudes on one side and an emerging Anglo-Québécois subject on the other. In contrast to the tenor of most discussions of "the subject," this essay proposes that an accumulation of subject positions might have the positive consequence of a subject being recognized, accepted, and given a voice. While acknowledging signs of emergence, the essay analyses how a myth of two solitudes continues to erase Anglo-Québécois subjectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Canadian family-adventure series "Adventures in Rainbow Country" followed in the wake of the deeply optimistic 1967 Centennial celebrations and reflects the country's long tradition of nation building. Given the rise of the Separatist and Red Power movements in Canada, the program's depiction of the harmonious co-existence of anglophone, francophone, and Indigenous populations is hardly an accurate representation of the era. Its strength lies in both its truths and its untruths, however. While postmodernism has taught us to question dangerous fictions, unmasking injustice, it can also stifle change, since it offers no alternatives to reality. This essay examines the contradictions behind the program's creation and reception in an attempt to explain its lasting impact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines the evolution of the Bilingualism in Education Program over its 13 years of operation in the province of Ontario. Focus on the development of language policy; Promotion of official minority language education and second-language instruction; Accommodation of interests of the anglophobe majority.