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VISAGES DE LA LITTÉRATURE CANADIENNE-FRANÇAISE series

This series is made up of several individual titles and the Visages de la Littérature Canadienne-Française sub-series.

Femmes Et Ecritures Des Quatre Coins Du Monde
Un Colloque bilingue organisé par l'Université de Toronto (juin 1988). Les trois participantes dont les communications abregées sont içi réunies parlent des problèmes divers auxquels elles doivent faire face en tant que femmes et écrivaines: suivie économique, tablus culturels et religieux, racisme, mysoginie de la critique. Malgré leurs différences ethniques et nationales, on retrouve chez ces trois femmes le même désir d'affirmer leur créativité et la même lutte solidaire pour se faire entendre et publier. Participantes: Régina Yaou (Côte d'Ivoire), Louky Bersianik (Québec), Aicha Lemsine (Algeria). Coordoné par Jeannette Savona, U. of Toronto. Voir aussi Women Writing Around the World. Disponible en ensemble ou individuellement.
28 minutes / 1990

Raoul Duguay Et La Poésie
Prof. Cloutier-Wojciechowska and Anne Sherman talk to Quebec poet Raoul Duguay. In French.
30 minutes / b&w / 1975

Visages de la Littérature Canadienne-Française series

Anne Hébert
Anne Hébert discusses her work and the literature of Quebec. In French.
50 minutes / 1971

Antonine Maillet
Prof. Laurent Mailhot, Université de Montréal talks with Maillet and they discuss her works, her role in Quebec literature, her Acadian origins and its influence on her writing.
25 minutes / 1971

F.A. Savard
Savard, notable French-Canadian author and professor of Canadian literature is interviewed (in French) by Prof. C. Cloutier-Wojciechowska and Prof. D.M. Hayne about his leitmotifs, his works and the importance of an intuitive feeling for the dynamics of the French-Canadian vocabulary. The program ends with Savard reading one of his poetic works.
55 minutes / b&w / 1970

Gaston Miron
Miron, founder of the Editions de l'Hèxagon, speaks of the process involved in the evolution of la poésie Canadienne-Française to la poésie Québecoise.
26 minutes / b&w / 1974

Gerard Bessette
Gerard Bessette, critic, novelist and poet, discusses (in French) his works and the literature of Québec with Prof. R. Robidoux and Prof. Ben Shek.
47 minutes / b&w / 1970

Gratien Gelinas
Interview with Gratien Gelinas by Prof. B. Shek. In French.
60 minutes / b&w / 1970

Hubert Aquin
Hubert Aquin, notable French-Canadian author is interviewed ( in French) by Prof. D. Hayne, R. Robidoux and Prof. Ben Shek about his novels: Episode trou de memoire, l'Antiphonaire and other essays. Aquin also talks of his writing for television.
52 minutes / b&w / 1972

Invite Roch Carrier
Part of series on prominent writers of French-Canadian literature. Prof. C. Cloutier-Wojciechowska and J. Raymond Brazeau, U of T, talk to Roch Carrier and discuss his works. In French.
41 minutes / 1976

Jacques Godbout
Interview with French Canadian author Jacques Godbout with a discussion of his work. In French
59 minutes / b&w / 1969

Jean Basile
Interviewed (in French) by Prof. David Hayne and Prof. R. Robidoux, Basile discusses his family background and childhood, his arrival in Québec from France, his novels and the role of the writer in Québec.
52 minutes / b&w / 1969

Marie-Claire Blais
Marie-Claire Blais, notable French-Canadian author, poet and dramatist is interviewed (in French) by Prof. Ben Shek, J.R. Brazeau and Prof. C. Cloutier-Wojciechowska about her works and her role and opinions on the future of French-Canadian literature.
50 minutes / b&w / 1970

Michel Tremblay Et André Brassard
Michel Tremblay and André Brassard are interviewed by Professors Shek and Maillot.
60 minutes / b&w / 1973

Paul Chamberland Et La Poésie
Hosts Prof. Cecile Clouthier and Anne Bayard talk to poet Paul Chamberland about his life and work.
35 minutes / b&w / 1976

Les Romans Des Années Cinquante Et Soixante
Jacques Allaird, R. Robidoux and Prof. Haines discuss the French Canadian novel of the 50's and early 60's.
53 minutes / b&w / 1974

Les Romans Des Années Soixante
Prof. Ben-Zion Shek, R. Robidoux and Jacques Allaird discuss the French-Canadian novel during the turbulent 60's in Quebec. In French.
55 minutes / b&w / 1974

Women Writing Around The World
An international bilingual colloquium at the University of Toronto, June 1988, discussed the problems of women writers from personal perspectives including issues of censorship, poverty and politics in historical and contemporary contexts. Participants included Dorothy Livesay (Canada), Lakshmi Kannan (India), Makeda Silvera (Jamaica), Miriam Tlali (Soweto, South Africa), Flora Nwapa (Nigeria). Producer: Rhonda Hammer, U. of Windsor. For French participants see Femmes et écritures des quatre coins du monde. Available as a set or separately.
36 minutes / 1992