Québécois-ness

Quebecois-ness Quebecoisness Québécoisness English Alternative forms en Quebecois-ness en Quebecoisness en Québécoisness Etymology From en Québécois ness. Noun - Québécois-ness The quality of being Québécois. en w:Ken McGoogan Visions of Kerouac Lawrencetown Beach, N.S. Pottersfield Press 1993 77 https://archive.org/details/visionsofkerouac0000mcgo/page/77/mode/1up 0-919001-75-0 Lawrence Ferlinghetti wondered aloud if the gathering wasn’t wildly exaggerating Kerouac’s Québécois-ness. en w:Elspeth Probyn Love In A Cold Climate: Singularities of Being and Longing Border/Lines 1994 26 These examples: a dream, a civic slogan, an act of violence, a news report, etc., must stand alone. Not one of them is representative of ‘Québécois-ness.’ en Post Script 1995 25 For these reasons , Léo’s “Because I dream, I’m not” marks his desperate struggle against losing himself in—and to—his (crazy) family, and by extension, to the threat of emasculation, to his class, and to his Québecoisness, en Élie Charest Lettre ouverte au ministre Stéphane Dion qc.politique 31 August 1997 Therefore, that would seem to indicate that most sovereignists seem not to have an exclusive view of Québécois-ness. en Line Grenier; Jocelyne Guilbault Créolité and Francophonie in music: Socio-musical repositioning where it matters Cultural Studies 11 2 w:Taylor & Francis May 1997 2005 223 Formerly viewed as cultural symbol par excellence of Québécois-ness, chanson has been attributed a new status as it has become a generic label applied to Québec’s musical terrain as a whole. en w:Elaine Keillor Stephen Thirlwall Gilles Vigneault Music in Canada: Capturing Landscape and Diversity Montreal, Que.; Kingston, Ont.; London; Ithaca McGill-Queen’s University Press 2006 308 https://archive.org/details/musicincanadacap0000keil/page/308/mode/1up 978-0-7735-3012-6 Though a degree of quebecoisness had come, a unified pays had not yet come. en Uriel Abulof The French Canadians The Mortality and Morality of Nations: Jews, Afrikaners, and French-Canadians w:Cambridge University Press 2015 The Québécois: The Rise and Demise of Ethnonationalism 115 and 118 978-1-107-09707-0 If “Québécois-ness” draws on ethnicity, then all descendants of the early French immigrant settlers should be equal partners in one extended ethnic family.If the initial ambiguity surrounding the definition of Québécois-ness signaled an identity crisis, now, in the 1980s, the crisis matured into a fission. en w:Geneviève Zubrzycki Key Trope: The Sheep Beheading the Saint: Nationalism, Religion, and Secularism in Quebec Chicago, Ill.; London The University of Chicago Press 2016 part two (Making and Debating Québécois-ness) 143 978-0-226-39171-7 They imagined themselves as the antithesis of the sheep, and as such the sheep remains as a pervasive trope against which Québécois-ness is defined and expressed.