Francophone Acadian Literature as an Ultraminor Literature

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" Francophone Acadian Literature as an Ultraminor Literature "
Andrea Cabajsky

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1075771
Doc. No	:	LA119400
Call No	:	‭10.1163/24056480-00202005‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Andrea Cabajsky
Title & Author	:	Francophone Acadian Literature as an Ultraminor Literature [Article]\ Andrea Cabajsky
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of World Literature
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	2/2
Page No	:	158–177
Abstract	:	This essay takes four novels by Acadian fiction-writer France Daigle as case studies of a phenomenon it defines as ultraminor. It develops the concept of the ultraminor in relation to Acadian literature, a doubly dominated literature positioned uneasily between centers of cultural influence in Paris and Montreal. The author conceives of the ultraminor as a writing strategy and a method of critical reading. As a writing strategy, the ultraminor aims to transcend dual marginality while establishing new frames of reference defined on local terms. As a dialectical critical method, the ultraminor exposes the binaries that novelists such as Daigle seek to transcend—between center and periphery and cultural normativity and emergence—while remaining caught within the terms of the original double-bind. Viewed from the lens of Daigle’s novels, the ultraminor complicates Casanova’s model of polycentrism by rendering intercultural relations among literary centers and peripheries at once dynamic and vulnerable to pressures from the margins. This essay takes four novels by Acadian fiction-writer France Daigle as case studies of a phenomenon it defines as ultraminor. It develops the concept of the ultraminor in relation to Acadian literature, a doubly dominated literature positioned uneasily between centers of cultural influence in Paris and Montreal. The author conceives of the ultraminor as a writing strategy and a method of critical reading. As a writing strategy, the ultraminor aims to transcend dual marginality while establishing new frames of reference defined on local terms. As a dialectical critical method, the ultraminor exposes the binaries that novelists such as Daigle seek to transcend—between center and periphery and cultural normativity and emergence—while remaining caught within the terms of the original double-bind. Viewed from the lens of Daigle’s novels, the ultraminor complicates Casanova’s model of polycentrism by rendering intercultural relations among literary centers and peripheries at once dynamic and vulnerable to pressures from the margins.
Descriptor	:	Acadian literature
Descriptor	:	French-Canadian literature
Descriptor	:	minor literature
Descriptor	:	minority
Descriptor	:	polycentrism
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/24056480-00202005‬