Québécois-ness

Definitions

The quality of being Québécois.

uncountable

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.”

CEFR level