Indigenous and Transcultural Narratives in Québec: Ways of Belonging

Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: Ways of Belonging
	Introduction
	A Note on Scope, Process, and Structure
	From Transculture to Transculturality
	Heterolingual and Translingual Dynamics
	Intercultural and Multicultural Concepts and Realities
	Migrant, Transnational, and Transcultural Creativity: écriture migrante and Beyond
	Indigeneity, Positionality, and Multiple Worldviews
	Personal, Interpersonal, and Transpersonal Testimony
	National and Post-national Intersections
	References
Chapter 2: Naomi Fontaine’s Indigenous Writing: Self, Community, and Society
	Introduction
		Discrimination and Protest
		A Tradition of Vocal Innu Women
		Language and Identity: Between Innu-aimun and French
	The Kinetic, Visual Poetry of Kuessipan
		A Strong Kinetic Field
		Types of Silence, Pathways, Fragmentation, Correspondence
		Female Strength and Male Malaise
	Kuessipan, the Movie: Cross-cultural Collaboration12
	Manikanetish and the Exceeding of Expectations
		Fighters, Not Victims
		Education and Eloquence as Tools for Empowerment
		Innu Pride and Tradition
		Reconnecting with How to Be an Innu: Interpersonal Relations and the Peace of Nutshimit
		Le Cid: Beyond Stereotype
	Shuni: Letters to Oneself and to Others
		Writing About Multiple Homes (and Who Is Being Written To)
		Self-affirmation and Hope
		Leadership, Female-to-Female Support, and Healing
		Identity, Innu-ness, and a Shared Space of Exchange
	References
Chapter 3: Abla Farhoud: Montreal Migrations and the Ghost of Lebanon
	Introduction
		Lebanon as a Conflicted Presence
		Autofiction, Fiction, and a Sense of Adoption in Montreal
	Le Bonheur a la queue glissante: Language, Displacement, Resilience, and Pain
	Le Sourire de la petite juive: Montreality, Transculturality, and the Portrait of a Street
		A Dynamic Intervening Space
		Transcultural Encounter Within the Pages of a Book: Smiles and Potential Connections
		Mental Migrancies, Emotional Distress, and Transitional Life Stages
		Creative Solitudes, the Writing Process, and Autofictional Winks
	Toutes celles que j’étais: The Multiplicity of the Ever-reconfigured Self
		Repositionings and Displacements
		Aablè and Aabla: Heterolingualism, Autofiction, and a Complicated Relationship with Arabic
		In-betweenness, Acting, and Multiplicity
		Constant Migrations and a Productive Instability
	References
Chapter 4: Anita Aloisio and Akos Verboczy, Children of la loi 101
	Multicultural Realities
		Intercultural Collisions in Acts of Transcultural Creation
		From la loi 101 to la loi 96
		Who Is a “Francophone” in Québec?
		The Révolution Tranquille, and the Survival of a surconscience linguistique
		Québécois Identity as a Societal Construct, Cultural “Othering”, and la loi 21
	Les Enfants de la loi 101: Aloisio’s Wish for Conversations Around a Table
		A Sandwich Generation
		Vulnerability and Resilience
		The Value of Explanation and Debate
		Homes and Intercultural Spaces
		From Conflict to Cautious Optimism
	Aloisio’s Calliari, QC: Marginality, Multiple Identities, and Loving Québec in Another Language
		Songs that Blend, Unsettle, and Transcend
	Verboczy’s Rhapsodie québécoise: from “d’où viens-tu” to “où allons-nous”?
		More Québécois than the Established Québécois?
		Intertextuality as Pluriform Literary Home, and a Celebration of North American Culture
		Social Ghettos, and How to Transmit Québec’s “patrimoine commun”?
		An Immigrant’s Ambivalence About (Immigrant) Heritage
		Leclair and Plamondon’s Les Québécois de la loi 101: Where to from Here?28
	Mingling and Exchange: Must One Choose Between Heritages?
	References
Chapter 5: Conclusion: Inscribing Home in Québec
	Introduction to the Conclusions
	From Inter-Trans-culturality Towards Reciprocity and cum-nascere1
	Self-assertion and Self-reconfiguration
	Stories and Transmission, Readers and Listeners
	Language and Powerful Alterities
	Places and Spaces of Potentiality
	Where Worlds Collide
	References
Index