Memory into History: Personal Documents for an Age of Franco-Ontarian Reculturation

摘要: Examining how language has functioned in the construction of Franco-Ontarian identities since late 1960s, essay addresses place subjectivity and personal always changing incomplete production historiographic consciousness. Through theoretical work on memory, author explores objects from a family collection inform cultural history Franco-Ontarians. Feminist postcolonial theories are engaged challenge to received dichotomy memory history. En examinant la facon dont le langage structure les identites franco-ontariennes depuis annees 1960, cet article aborde de subjectivite et du personnel au sein creation toujours changeante conscience historiographique. Par l'entremise d'un travail theorique sur memoire, l'auteur explore objets personnels d'une famille informent culture historique des Franco-ontariens. On mobilise feministes postcoloniales pour relever defi que constitue dichotomie revue memoire l'histoire. We may all have access our memories, but not us allowed histories. If knowledge is power, construed by those power - both assertions justifiable who do signify, therefore produce knowledge. Our stories forgotten. Eunice Lipton Nous sommes ici lieu blessee. Quittant toute reserve, je presume nous eprouvons Purgent besoin dire. De rejoindre dans l'imaginaire si tant est qu'il encore intact. Roger Levac one thinks postcard as material artefact, particular device that allows for inscription into complex system representational spaces, then perhaps postcards share homogeneity function form. Premised personalization object, with marking memory-sensitive surfaces, can be thought manner similar photograph, interest my study two postcards, could say, photograph. The an ambivalent produced between spatial temporal locations, seriality personalization. In what these poles come contact, we read traces displacement contingent every postcard? This concerned such questions ephemera ephemerality. It began part sorting through once belonged maternal grandfather, Rolland Lebrun. From his collection, I drawn items. One card sent grandfather mother 1964. other unmarked Expo '67, world's fair held Montreal. What interests me cards disjunctions their articulations bilingualism, such, divergent testimonies concerning social group marks identity, Franco-Ontarien(ne)s. While identification seem highly contingent, French-Canadian communities living outside Quebec at time emergence independence movement Franco-Ontarien, Acadien, Franco-Manitobain, so forth, according presence provinces, were identity formations involved many emotionally charged discursively features nationalism. say mobilized discourse geographically fragmented, culturally heterogeneous no way analogous another (Guillaume 1; Dorais 89). premise mine more recently, Ontarois, nationalism supported various institutional structures. …