Meaning of Québécois-ness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being Québécois.

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Examples

“Ferlinghetti wondered if the gathering “might be exaggerating Jack’s Quebecois-ness too much,” and noted that one of the great problems for all immigrant Americans is “the fantastic speed with which they lose their roots.””

“But then again, and to contradict many of your charges of narrow ethnocentrism, etc., I speak fluent Spanish, love Cuban cuisine, have conducted lectures on Latin American politics and society in Spanish, and am Godfather to an adorable Cuban-American little girl. None of which reduces my Quebecois-ness one bit.”

“Instead, French as vehicular language offers immigrants a passport to the Quebecois public sphere, a means of breaking their imposed silence and of expressing their differential “Quebecois-ness”[…]”

“At the beginning of her career in Quebec, Bujold represented a modern Quebecoise but as she embarks on a series of transnational migrations, her Quebecois-ness is muted.”

“Lawrence Ferlinghetti wondered aloud if the gathering wasn’t wildly exaggerating Kerouac’s Québécois'''-ness.”

“These examples: a dream, a civic slogan, an act of violence, a news report, etc., must stand alone. Not one of them is representative of ‘Québécois-ness.’”

“For these reasons , Léo’s “Because I dream, I’m not” marks his desperate struggle against losing himself in—and to—his (crazy) family, and by extension, to the threat of emasculation, to his class, and to his Québecoisness,”

“Therefore, that would seem to indicate that most sovereignists seem not to have an exclusive view of Québécois-ness.”

“Formerly viewed as cultural symbol par excellence of Québécois'''-ness, chanson has been attributed a new status as it has become a generic label applied to Québec’s musical terrain as a whole.”

“Though a degree of quebecoisness had come, a unified pays had not yet come.”

“If “Québécois-ness” draws on ethnicity, then all descendants of the early French immigrant settlers should be equal partners in one extended ethnic family.[…]If the initial ambiguity surrounding the definition of Québécois-ness signaled an identity crisis, now, in the 1980s, the crisis matured into a fission.”

“They imagined themselves as the antithesis of the sheep, and as such the sheep remains as a pervasive trope against which Québécois-ness is defined and expressed.”

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