[DOWNLOAD] "It Takes a Village: Cultural Border Crossings in Rue Deschambault and CES Enfants de Ma Vie by Gabrielle Roy." by Michigan Academician * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: It Takes a Village: Cultural Border Crossings in Rue Deschambault and CES Enfants de Ma Vie by Gabrielle Roy.
- Author : Michigan Academician
- Release Date : January 22, 2004
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 357 KB
Description
Throughout Gabrielle Roy's short stories, characters frequently confront cultural differences. Whereas some may approach this task from a global perspective, the most effective and accessible means to this end typically finds itself on a local level. In her study on Roy, M. G. Hesse correctly indicates that Roy favors highlighting the variety of people included in the "Canadian Mosaic" in works such as Ces enfants de ma vie. (1) This tendency to view cultural differences as a beneficial and enriching component of a given society is evidenced in Roy's attention to the interactions among ethnicities in Ces enfants de ma vie. Likewise, the same can be said of Rue Deschambault, among other works. Through the variety of her literary representations of interpersonal connections that defy deeply engrained cultural divides, Roy fruitfully complicates an issue that may appear simplistic but is quite complex in her literary Manitoban reality. In Rue Deschambault and Ces enfants de ma vie, Gabrielle Roy lyrically recounts several attempts at cultural border crossings in her series of short stories that are written in an autobiographical vein. (2) By the end of Rue Deschambault, we learn of the narrator's plans to become an elementary school teacher, plans that parallel the author's own in 1920s Manitoba. The narrator of Ces enfants de ma vie chronicles the life of a Francophone school teacher who serves as cultural initiator to children of many different lands and languages. This older narrator's seemingly limitless energetic attention to the process of making cultural connections and of surmounting cultural and linguistic differences reveals a leitmotiv that is clearly distinguishable in Rue Deschambault as well.