Fractured bodies and diseased societies: Medicalizing Quebec in Cité libre

Robert, J

Fractured bodies and diseased societies: Medicalizing Quebec in Cité libre

Robert, J

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Journal of Canadian Studies, 2011, 45 (1), pp. 178 - 199
Issue Date:: 2011-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Robert, J https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6852-2137	en_US
dc.date.issued	2011-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Canadian Studies, 2011, 45 (1), pp. 178 - 199	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0021-9495	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19046
dc.description.abstract	This essay seeks to rationalize and explain the evolution of medical rhetoric in Cité libre by looking at trends in the journal's use of tropes of illness and disease. Through a combination of broad content analysis and close readings, it contrasts how individual metaphors create the impression of a sickening nation and the manner in which these metaphors collectively, albeit paradoxically, act as a national allegory of cure for mid-twentieth-century Quebec's social ills in general, and specifically for its pathological inferiority complex. By examining how the journal uses medical metaphors and specifically how the writers employed the trope of the body politic to illustrate Quebec's national failings, the essay demonstrates how Quebec challenges the rhetorical stability of the age-old metaphor as it attempts to solve, but also creates, problems within Quebec's articulation of its own nationhood. © 2011 Project MUSE®.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Canadian Studies	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.3138/jcs.45.1.178	en_US
dc.subject.classification	History	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Humans	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Disease	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Language	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Public Health	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Human Body	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Social Problems	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	History, 19th Century	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	History, 20th Century	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Metaphor	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Population Groups	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Quebec	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Periodicals as Topic	en_US
dc.title	Fractured bodies and diseased societies: Medicalizing Quebec in Cité libre	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.citation.volume	45	en_US
utslib.for	200211 Postcolonial Studies	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Faculty Administration
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pubs.issue	1	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	45	en_US

Abstract:

This essay seeks to rationalize and explain the evolution of medical rhetoric in Cité libre by looking at trends in the journal's use of tropes of illness and disease. Through a combination of broad content analysis and close readings, it contrasts how individual metaphors create the impression of a sickening nation and the manner in which these metaphors collectively, albeit paradoxically, act as a national allegory of cure for mid-twentieth-century Quebec's social ills in general, and specifically for its pathological inferiority complex. By examining how the journal uses medical metaphors and specifically how the writers employed the trope of the body politic to illustrate Quebec's national failings, the essay demonstrates how Quebec challenges the rhetorical stability of the age-old metaphor as it attempts to solve, but also creates, problems within Quebec's articulation of its own nationhood. © 2011 Project MUSE®.

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