LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 9 September 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
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Towards Quebecois - A Study of Michel Tremblay's Plays in the Cycle of Les Belles - Soeurs

G. Sripriya Ramu, M.A. (English), M.Phil., M.A. (French)
A. K. Mohamed Amin, Ph.D.
S. Gunasekaran, Ph.D.

A New Era in the French Canadian Theatre

The year 1968 is remembered in Quebec for two major events - the founding of Parti Quebecois which radically changed the political atmosphere of Quebec, and the production of Michel Tremblay's Les Belles-Soeurs, the play that united the popular and avant-garde theatre and thus created a new era in the history of French Canadian theatre.

The avant-garde theatre in the 1940's and 1950's turned to Europe for its inspiration and it was Emile Legault who brought the European concept of theatre production to Quebec from 1937 to 1952. During this period a number of professional companies were formed whose experimental plays were influenced by surrealism and the French theatre of the absurd. Some of them even attempted Brechtian techniques of alienation and other distancing techniques.

The Popular theatre, on the other hand, put up what is called the sketches or humorous revues which addressed, for the most part, to the common man of the francophone population. According to John Weiss, “... it was a reflection of Popular (as opposed to elite) culture, and in Quebec it meant that its subject matter and language were rooted in French Canadian (as opposed to European) life” (9).

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G. Sripriya Ramu, M.A. (English), M.Phil., M.A. (French), RBT (Hindi)
Ph.D. Research Scholar in English
Jamal Mohamed College
Thiruchirapalli - 620 020
Tamil Nadu
India
sripriyaramu@yahoo.com

A. K. Mohamed Amin, Ph.D.
Head of Department of English
Jamal Mohamed College
Thiruchirapalli - 620 020
Tamil Nadu
India
aminkhattu59@rediffmail.com

S. Gunasekaran, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in English
Anna University
Dindigul Campus
Dindigul - 624 622
Tamil Nadu
India
gunakundhavai@yahoo.com
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