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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Campbell, Wanda

Titel

Seeing Red: Passion in Acadian Poetry

Ist Teil von

• Journal of Canadian studies, 2014-09, Vol.48 (3), p.162-180

Ort / Verlag

Toronto: University of Toronto Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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Quelle

Literature Online (LION eBooks)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This essay explores aspects of passion in three Acadian poems, Herménégilde Chiasson’s “Rouge” (“Red”) which first appeared in Mourir à Scoudouc in 1974, Henri-Dominique Paratte’s “Rouge Sang” (“Blood Red”) which first appeared in Éloizes: Revue de l’Association des écrivains acadiens in 1984, and “La petite sorcière rouge...” (The little red witch), an excerpt from Dyane Léger’s L’incendiaire, published in 2008 in collaboration with Paul Savoie. Although there is a period of 34 years between the publication of the first and last work, and they range in form from the prose poem to lineated free verse, all three share the leitmotif of the passionate colour red with its many, often opposing, symbolic, historical, and literary associations; the list as a poetic device that incorporates past and present, real and surreal, poetic and political; and finally the love story, which aspires towards a happy ending, however elusive. The red of fire and blood that marked Le Grand Dérangement of 1755 is a testament to the passion of a people determined to endure.