Open Access edition of The Quebec Connection by Julie-Francoise Tolliver

FAIN: DR-285176-22

University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA 22903-4833)
Eric Brandt (Project Director: July 2021 to July 2023)

This project will publish the book The Quebec Connection: A Poetics of Solidarity in Global Francophone Literatures, written by NEH Fellow Julie-Françoise Tolliver (NEH grant number FA-252195-17), in an electronic open access format under a Creative Commons license, making it available for free download and distribution. The author will be paid a royalty of at least $500 upon release of the open access ebook.

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Publication Type: Open Access Collection
Title: The Quebec Connection
Year: 2020
ISBN: 97808139490
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Author: Julie Francoise-Tolliver
Abstract: From the 1950s to the 1970s, the idea of independence inspired radical changes across the French-speaking world. In The Quebec Connection, Julie-Françoise Tolliver examines the links and parallels that writers from Quebec, the Caribbean, and Africa imagined to unite that world, illuminating the tropes they used to articulate solidarities across the race and class differences that marked their experience. Tolliver argues that the French tongue both enabled and delimited connections between these writers, restricting their potential with the language’s own imperial history. The literary map that emerges demonstrates the plurality of French-language literatures, going beyond the concept of a single, unitary francophone literature to appreciate the profuse range of imaginaries connected by solidary texts that hoped for transformative independence. Importantly, the book expands the "francophone" framework by connecting African and Caribbean literatures to Québécois literature, attending to their interactions while recognizing their particularities. The Quebec Connection’s analysis of transnational francophone solidarities radically alters the field of francophone studies by redressing the racial logic that isolates the northern province from what has come to be called the postcolonial world.
Primary URL: http://https://open.upress.virginia.edu/projects/the-quebec-connection
Primary URL Description: University of Virginia Press
Type: Single author monograph

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