Abstracts
Résumé
L’écocritique est une approche d’analyse culturelle récente qui est apparue aux États-Unis au cours des années 1980. Elle s’est constituée à partir de l’écologie, discipline scientifique issue de la biologie, puis de l’écologisme, mouvement social provenant d’une certaine critique de la modernité. Les recherches en écocritique s’intéressent aux relations entre l’être humain et l’environnement telles qu’elles sont représentées dans les expressions culturelles. Cette perspective est ici appliquée à La héronnière de Lise Tremblay, un recueil de nouvelles publié en 2003. L’oeuvre offre une relecture de l’opposition entre ruralité et urbanité au Québec. Elle met en scène trois rapports de l’être à son milieu – le rural, l’urbain et le néorural – personnifiés par trois narrateurs qui observent un village indéterminé, mais emblématique. Ces points de vue, examinant les habitats, les migrations et les prédations, dévoilent leurs types de rapports à la nature : domination, consommation et réappropriation.
Mots-clés:
- Écocritique,
- littérature québécoise,
- nouvelle,
- habitat,
- migration,
- prédation
Abstract
Ecocriticism is a recent approach to cultural analysis that first emerged in the United States in the 1980s. It is based on a combination of ecology, a branch of biology, and environmentalism, a social movement that has arisen from judgements about certain practices in modern-day society. Research in ecocriticism investigates the way cultural expressions reflect the relationship between human beings and their environment. In this case, the analysis is applied to a collection of short stories published in 2003, La héronnière, by Lise Tremblay. The book offers a new perspective on the traditional opposition between rural and urban life in Québec. It chronicles three examples of the relationship between individuals and their environment – rural, urban, and neorural – through the eyes of three narrators observing an unidentified but symbolically significant village. Their different points of view on three dimensions of their environment – habitat, migration and predation – reveal their own particular relationships with nature as being based on domination, consumption, and appropriation.
Keywords:
- Ecocriticism,
- Quebec literature,
- short story,
- habitat,
- migration,
- predation
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