Effets de l’humour dans le discours féminin et féministe de Maryse de Francine Noël

Abstract

The feminist wave initiated by the Quiet Revolution gave birth, in the literature of Quebec, to a plethora
of literary productions (novels, plays, critical essays etc.) which approach from different angles the feminine issue in its specificity in regard to social, cultural and economic relations with the other sex. Feminine character in the novel of our choice debates on these subjects using various registers (from the colloquial discourse to pseudoacademic demonstrations) and on a variety of tones. The feminist speech begins with humour and in a good mood, only to turn to irony, derision, self-derision, sarcasm, and even cynicism. Our paper focuses on a large fragment from the novel Maryse, by Francine Noël, in which feminist and feminine discourse changes course in a spectacular manner