Meaning of Québécoisness | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of Québécois-ness.

alt-of, alternative, uncountable

Examples

“These examples: a dream, a civic slogan, a photograph, a film, a téléroman, etc., must stand alone. Not one of them is representative of “Québécois[-]ness.””

“Speaking French became a more accurate barometer of Québécoisness than did French ancestry or adherents to Catholicism’s tenets.[…]Two of Quebec’s languages laws, Bill 22 (1974) and Bill 101 (1977), have been the clearest with regard to defining Québécoisness on the basis of the French language.”

“That hockey is an expression of Canadian culture and a symbol of Canadianness (or of Québécoisness) is something many Canadians take for granted, though explicit tensions, and potential identity crises, have threatened to disrupt the significance and status of the game.”

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

“So what do you think - full fluffy (celebrating her Quebecoisness), tightly trimmed ("Devil's Advocate"), or an Altair smoothie?”

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

“Playing up his Quebecoisness should allow him to be a heel anywhere in the U.S. and English-speaking Canada.”

“In this chapter, however, I do not propose to engage with the question of “Oedipal and masculinised reterritorialisations” that Marshall (7) raises in his text or that of the Canadianness or Quebecoisness of this series in comparison with the other comics that are serialized in the magazine Spirou.”

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