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Conservative Crossroads

Anti-Americanism and Anti-modernism in French Canadian Intellectual Discourse, 1891–1945

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ID22348221
AuthorsDamien-Claude Bélanger (University of Ottawa, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume32
Issue1
Publication date2017-12-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLondon Journal of Canadian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0267-2200 • E-ISSN: 2397-0928
PublisherUCL Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2017v32.003
OpenAlexW2793408518
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited1

America has generated a great deal of thought and writing in Quebec, but this commentary has never possessed the obsessiveness and anxieties that have characterized English Canadian writing on the United States. Yet both English- and French-speaking Canada share a vigorous and long-standing anti-American tradition. Indeed, from the eighteenth century to the present day, leading French Canadian writers and intellectuals have offered sweeping condemnations of American society. This apparent continuity masks a fundamental shift in the underpinnings of anti-American rhetoric in Quebec: primarily a left-wing idea today, anti-Americanism was essentially a right-wing doctrine until the postwar years. This paper explores the nature and origins of anti-Americanism in French Canada before 1945 and finds it tied to notions of anti-modernism on the part of French Canadian intellectuals

Anti-Americanism · Art · Art history · Doctrine · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Rhetoric · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · History · Law · Literature, Musicology, and Cultural Analysis · Philosophy

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Citations per year0,13
Citation span2018 - 2018 (1)
Citation velocityhistorical
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