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- Walecka-Garbalinska, Maria, 1952-
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Le Canada et les représentations du Nord dans l'œuvre de Xavier Marmier (1808-1892) : substitutions et parallèles
- 2009
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Ingår i: Canada. - New York : P.I.E. Peter Lang. - 9789052014852 ; , s. 245-255
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This article proposes a reading of the work of Xavier Marmier, a 19th-century French traveller and writer who visited Canada and the Nordic Countries and wrote anthropological, cultural and historical books, travel stories as well as a lengthy novel on the basis of his experience. He was one of the first French intellectuals to encourage French Canadian nationalism by his enchanting writings that boosted French Canadian self-esteem and gave to the French public more accurate and contemporary information. Maria Walecka-Garbalinska argues that there is, however, a slight contradiction between Marmier’s nationalistic objectives concerning French Canada and his literary description of it. The texts that are supposed to describe the people, values, traditions, landscape and harsh conditions in French Canada are inspired, she argues, by Marmier’s earlier visits to the North of Europe. Consequently, the enchanting description is not motivated so much by the object of the supposed portrait than it is by the author’s former experiences and, even more, by an ideal produced by a Southern and foreign imagination and imposed upon Northern cultures, no matter their geographical situation. Hence, what Marmier presents as the “national” characteristics of French Canada have in fact less to do with its local reality than with its resemblance to other Northern cultures. This parallel enhances the understanding of the North as a “transnational” territory, being described and defined by “others” in various social discourses (literature, tourism).
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- Walecka-Garbalinska, Maria, 1952-
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Sahara et Laponie : imaginaire du désert et discours colonial dans les récits de voyage de Charles Martins et d'Eugène Goblet d'Alviella
- 2009
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Ingår i: L'image du Sápmi. - Örebro : Örebro University. - 9789176686188 ; , s. 480-497
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Les récits de voyage de Charles Martins, Du Spitzberg au Sahara (1866) et d'Eugène Goblet d'Alviella, Sahara et Laponie (1873) invitent à une lecture parallèle du désert de sable et du désert de neige. Les deux textes s'inscrivent dans un cadre discursif colonial où les lieux communs de l'imaginaire du désert coexistent avec les objectifs scientifiques des voyageurs érudits. Chez le médecin français comme chez l'homme politique belge, la démarche comparative propre à l'écriture du Voyage se met au service du débat concernant les modalités de la colonisation française. Dès lors, les expériments cépahlométriques sur les Sames ou l'échec des mesures administratives visant leur sédentarisation deviennent autant d'arguments en faveur du "régime du sabre" en Algérie et de l'inéluctable disparition du nomadisme saharien.
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