Canada: Quebec
(see also Canada, Canada: Aboriginal Peoples & Canadian Radicalism)
Basics
CIA World Factbook. Includes map.
UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators.
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Gagnon, Charles. "The Quebec liberation struggle," New Left Review 64 (11-12/70):62-70.
Osterman, John. "Doctors & socialized health care in Quebec," Monthly Review 34,1 (5/82):55-64.
Robinson, Lukin. "Yugoslavia dismembered," Monthly Review (4/97):46-59. Review essay on Catherine Samary's book with that title, of which second half is long essay on lessons of Balkan conflict for Quebecois & other Canadians.
__________. "Different from the US: Lucky Canada," Monthly Review (4/99):58-64. Informative review essay on Roberts, In the Shadow of Empire.
Rocher, Guy. "The quiet revolution & revolutionary movements among Quebec French Canadians," in Richard A. Preston (ed.) Perspectives on Revolution & Evolution (Durham NC: 1979).
Rolfe, Christopher. "Heroes & anti-heroes: (self-) perceptions of the Québecois," in D. L. Madison (ed.) Visions of America since 1492 (London, 1994), pp. 75-93.
Swift, Richard. "Spitting in the soup," New Internationalist (3/96):20-21.
Wagley, Charles & Marvin Harris. "The French Canadians," in their Minorities in the New World (NY, 1958), pp. 169-202.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Bergeron, Léandre. The History of Quebec: A Patriot's Handbook (Toronto, 1971).
Breton, Raymond & Others (eds.) National Survival in Dependent Societies: Social Change in Canada & Poland (Ottawa: Carleton U., 1990).
Choquette, Robert. Language & Religion: A History of English-French Conflict in Ontario (NY, 1992).
Clift, Dominique. Quebec Nationalism in Crisis (Kingston: McGill-Queens, 1982).
Dixon, Marlene & Susanne Jonas (eds.) Quebec & the Parti Quebecois (San Francisco: Synthesis, 1978).
Handler, R. Quebecois Nationalism & the Politics of Culture & the Politics of Culture (Madison: U. Wisconsin, 1988).
Kerr, D.G.G. A Historical Atlas of Canada (2nd ed.; Don Mills ONT: Nelson, 1966).
Leger, Marcel. Le Parti Quebecois: ce n'etait qu'un debut (Quebec: Quebec/Amérique, 1986).
Morris, Raymond N. The Carnivalization of Politics: Quebec Cartoons on Relations with Canada, England & France, 1900-1979 (Montreal: McGill-Queens, 1995).
Rayside, David M. A Small Town in Modern Times: Alexandria, Ontario (Montreal: McGill-Queens, 1991). Anglo-Francophone relations.
Reid, Malcolm. The Shouting Signpainters: A Literary & Political Account of Quebec Revolutionary Nationalism (NY: Monthly Review, 1972).
Roberts, Joseph K. In the Shadow of Empire: Canada for Americans (NY: Monthly Review, 1998).
Ryerson, Stanley. Unequal Union: Confederation & the Roots of Conflict in the Canadas, 1815-1873 (Toronto: 1968).
Samuel, T.J. Quebec Separatism is Dead: Demography is Destiny (Ottawa: J. Samuel, 1994).
Wade, Mason. The French Canadian Outlook: A Brief Account of the Unknown North Americans (NY: Viking, 1946).
Waldmann, Peter. Ethnischer Radikalismus: Ursachen und Folgen Gewaltsamer
Minderheiten-
konflikte am Beispiel des Baskenlandes, Nordirland und Quebecs
(Opladen : Westdeutscher Verlag, 1989).
In the Library: Fiction
Cohen, Leonard. The Favorite Game: A Novel (NY: Vintage, 2003). Jewish Montreal.
Ducharme, Réjean. Go Figure (trans. Will Browning; Vancouver: Talon, 2004).
Farrow, John. City of Ice: A Novel (NY: Random House, 1999). Métis detective confronts motorcycle gangs & Russian mafia in Montreal.
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" [1974], dir. Ted Kotcheff, 121m.
"Decline of the American Empire (Déclin de l'empire américain)" [1986], dir. Denys Arcand, 101m. Academic leftists discuss lechery over dinner.
"Jésus de Montreal [Jesus in Montreal" [1989], dir. Denys Arcand, 118m. In video stores. Christ story reset around a Quebec passion play.
"Les invasions barbares [The Barbarian Invasions}" [2003], dir. Denys Arcand, 99m. In video stores. Revisits characters of "Decline of the American Empire" as one lies dying in a Quebec hospital.
"Kamouraska" [1973], dir. Claude Jutra, 124m. Rural Quebec in 1830s & 40s.
"Lies My Father Told Me" [1975], Jan Kadar, 102m. Jewish immigrant life in Montreal.
"Mon Oncle Antoine" [1971], dir. Claude Jutra, 104m. Contemporary rural life.
"When Night is Falling (Quand tomb a nuite)" [1995], dir. Patricia Rozema, 94m. Protestant schoolteacher, engaged to be married, finds love with another woman.
"Seducing Dr. Lewis (La grande séduction)" [2003] , dir. Jean-François Pouliot, 108m. Village goes to great lengths to persuade a Montreal doctor to settle there.