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Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Abstract

If francophone literatures were introduced as early as the 1970s principally at the Universities of Laval and Sherbrooke in Québec and at the Universities of Toronto, York and British Columbia in anglophone Canada, today, they enjoy a significant presence in all the large universities of the country. Paradoxically, in the Canadian university system as a whole, francophone literatures are taught more in anglophone Canada than in the francophone province of Québec. Two unrelated factors help to explain this situation. Early in the 1990s, under the influence of American universities, Canadian anglophone universities experienced an exponential growth of francophone literature, while in Québec universities, nationalist ideology created a dichotomy between French and Québec literatures by hoisting the latter to the rank of national literature. Francophone literatures from other areas appear thus to be excluded. However, in the universities that teach these literatures, there is no longer a need to justify their presence neither to the students nor to administrators of departments, colleges or programs.

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