The essays in this volume consider a range of negotiations around francophone identity in Canada (Quebec, Acadia, Ontario, Saskatchewan), in the Caribbean, in Belgium and in Switzerland, and also with regard to Jewishness within European and Canadian francophonie. Their arrangement, starting with the Americas and concluding with Europe, provides a structural foregrounding of the shifting emphasis of the margins/centre debate, which also serves to resituate the more occulted, but no less significant, uncertainties of minority francophone cultures in Europe. Ce recueil d'essais examine les negociations variees autour de l'identite francophone au Canada (Quebec, Acadie, Ontario, Saskatchewan), aux Antilles, en Belgique, en Suisse, et dans l'ecriture juive francophone de l'Europe et du Canada. Prenant les Ameriques comme point de depart et l'Europe comme point de chute, il met en relief, de par cette organisation, l'accentuation changeante du debat entre les marges et le centre, tout en resituant du meme coup les incertitudes plus cachees mais non moins significatives des cultures francophones minoritaires de l'Europe.

Author Biography

The Editor: Rachel Killick is Professor of Quebec Studies and Nineteenth-Century French Studies, and Director of the Leeds Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Leeds (UK). Her research in Quebec Studies focuses on the particular role of theatre, especially that of Michel Tremblay, in the development of Quebec's international profile. In 2004 she was awarded the Ordre des francophones d'Amerique by Quebec's Conseil superieur de la langue francaise. La responsable de la publication: Rachel Killick est titulaire d'une chaire d'etudes quebecoises et d'etudes francaises du dix-neuvieme siecle, et directrice du Centre d'etudes canadiennes a l'Universite de Leeds (R-U). Ses recherches en etudes quebecoises concernent le role du theatre, notamment celui de Michel Tremblay, dans le developpement du profil international du Quebec. En 2004 le Conseil superieur de la langue francaise du Quebec lui a decerne l'Ordre des Francophones d'Ameriques.