Questions de décolonisation et de résilience : bref essai théorique sur le cas des Métis du Manitoba français (essai) suivi de Et elle sourit. (oeuvre de création)

• Main Author: Reynolds, Dominique
• Other Authors: Gaboury-Diallo, Lise (French, Spanish and Italian), Chassaing, Irène (French, Spanish and Italian), Balint, Adina (University of Winnipeg)
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Metis; Indigenous; Mitchif; Fiction; French; Canada; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/34226

Divided in two parts, this thesis includes a theoretical essay followed by a creative work. We begin with a brief overview of the state of First Nations literature, specifically fiction, written in French or English in Canada, and how this literary production and its critical reception have evolved over the years. We then focus our attention on three specific themes: post-colonialism, decolonization and resilience, with a specific interest in how First Nations and Franco-Manitoban Métis relate to these concepts by either adopting them, rejecting them or creating new ones. Inspired by our research on these subjects and our readings of works of various First Nations authors, we propose, in the second part of this dissertation, a collection of seven short stories entitled Et elle sourit… October 2019