A SEMANTIC DIPTYCH IN THE WORK OF REJEAN DUCHARME
A SEMANTIC DIPTYCH IN THE WORK OF REJEAN DUCHARME

Summary/Abstract: The impending confrontation that threatens to disrupt the fragile balance within Canadian society appears to stem from two main sources : the Anglo-American population and the Franco-French-speaking population (terms that attempt to encompass geographically and culturally neighboring but antagonistic spaces). But, to the reader's great surprise, the opposition is not only defined by the general English-French dichotomy, but also within the same aspect of the semantic diptych; that is to say, Francophone elements in Canada can clash with those in France, while American origins can be found in contradiction with English (British) ones.

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