Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: On “Passages,” Passeurs, and Passeuses in Paris and Montreal 1
5. Women’s History and Passages across the Atlantic
6. A Place for the Spirit: Canada as Dream and Reality in the Autobiographical Writings of the Women of New France 29
7. Time, Sir 47
8. French and Quebec Feminisms: Influences and Reciprocities 50
9. Je m’en vais à Trieste (excerpt) 60
10. European Cultural Influences on Quebec Writers
11. Writing beyond Redemption: Hubert Aquin and Mordecai Richler in Postwar Paris 67
12. Des châteaux en Suisse? Switzerland in the Quebec Imagination: Aquin and Brossard 80
13. Je m’en vais à Trieste (excerpt) 95
14. Chez Nous: Gail Scott’s My Paris 97
15. My Paris (excerpt) 105
16. Transatlantic Reading in the Works of France Théoret 107
17. Literary Border Crossings: Reconceptualizing Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes in Lise Gauvin’s Lettres d’une autre and Chahdortt Djavann’s Comment peut-on être français? 122
18. France in the Heart of the Eastern Townships 136
19. The Theatrical Space of Exchange
20. Marie Cardinal, Translator of Myths and Theatre: The Words to Say Difference 141
21. (Post)Colonial Performances: Nationalist and Post-nationalist Quebec Theatre in Europe 157
22. Michel Cochet on Larry Tremblay: An Auto-Interview 174
23. Franco-European Immigrant Voices in Quebec
24. From Flâneuse to Cybernomad: Roaming the World with Régine Robin 179
25. Transatlantic Crossings in the Work of Alice Parizeau and Naïm Kattan 190
26. From Europe to Quebec Cinematic History 205
27. Three Demoiselles sauvages in Search of Other Worlds: Corinna Bille and Gabrielle Roy in the Films of Léa Pool 209
28. Contemporary Art Forms and Popular Culture
29. Riopelle and Me: Impression passagère 227
30. Crossings: In Situ Art in Transit 258
31. A Quiet Evolution: Artist’s Books in Quebec and France (Beausoleil, Dorion, Desautels) 266
32. La Chanson Québécoise: Not the Same Old (French) Song 286
33. Ce soir je chante à l’Olympia Tonight I’m Singing at the Olympia 301
34. (Not so) Separate but Unequal: On the Circulation of Popular Culture Items between France and Quebec 305
35. Contributors 327
36. Index 337