“Countering Ageism in Nancy Huston’s Dolce agonia and Michèle Ouimet’s L’heure mauve”

Auteurs-es

  • Susan Ireland
  • Patrice Proulx

Résumé

Dans son étude sur les effets néfastes de l'âgisme (2017), Margaret Morganroth Gullette souligne le fait que la marginalisation constitue une de ses conséquences les plus troublantes, soutenant que, comparé au racisme, au sexisme et à l'homophobie, “ageism is the least censured, the most acceptable and unnoticed of the cruel prejudices” (xiii 2017). Les femmes en particulier ont été affectées de manière négative par les idées dévalorisantes qui résultent des intersections entre le vieillissement et le genre. Depuis les années 1990, cependant, un corpus croissant d'analyses académiques et d'oeuvres de fiction et auto/biographiques a commencé à contester les clichés qui dénigrent les personnes âgées. Dolce Agonia de Nancy Huston et L'heure mauve de Michèle Ouimet, par exemple, mettent en avant diverses réponses à l'expérience du vieillissement, de la maladie et de la perte. La structure polyphonique de ces romans crée un dialogue complexe sur des sujets importants liés au vieillissement et les deux textes relèvent le défi lancé par Lynne Segal “[to] think again, think more imaginatively, about ageing” (2).

Bibliographies de l'auteur-e

Susan Ireland

Susan Ireland is Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature at Grinnell College. Her current research interests include memory studies, trauma narratives, the Algerian novel, aging studies, and the literature of immigration and diaspora in France and Quebec. She is an editor of The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature (Greenwood, 1999) and, with Patrice J. Proulx, of Immigrant Narratives in Contemporary France (Greenwood, 2001) and Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec (Praeger, 2004). She has also published articles in journals such as L’Esprit Créateur, Québec Studies, World Literature Today, and Nottingham French Studies.

Patrice Proulx

Patrice J. Proulx is Professor of French and Director of Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska Omaha and holds affiliated faculty status with The Goldstein Center for Human Rights. Her research and teaching interests include contemporary French and francophone literature and film, cultural studies, and the literature of immigration in France and Quebec. Her articles have appeared in such journals as The French Review, L’Esprit Créateur, Québec Studies, and Sites: Contemporary French & Francophone Studies, as well as in a number of edited collections. She is an editor of The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature and co-editor with Susan Ireland of Immigrant Narratives in Contemporary France, and Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec.

Publié-e

2023-11-07