Rendez-vous de la bibliothèque

« Francophone Native Literatures in Quebec », with Maurizio Gatti.

Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 6pm
Julien Gracq Library
5 allée Jacques Berque 44000 Nantes.

Free event upon registration via this link.

The first reference tool of its kind when it was published in 2004, this new, revised and expanded edition of the anthology edited by Maurizio Gatti, Littératures autochtones francophones au Québec, provides a current and essential portrait of French-language Aboriginal literary production. The last twenty years have seen a veritable effervescence in the influence of Aboriginal authors, a fact that Gatti celebrates with accuracy and acuity, offering theoretical benchmarks and an exhaustive presentation of this vast corpus. With its wide variety of extracts grouped by genre (legends, tales, harangues, plays, poems, novels, autobiographies) from works of different generations, this anthology offers a passionate plunge into a burgeoning literature.

Maurizio Gatti is an independent researcher, translator and interpreter. He has published several anthologies, essays and articles on the native literatures of Quebec, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Morocco and Algeria. He was resident at the Institut d’études avancées de Nantes in 2021 / 2022.