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Québec's Broken Futures History, Speculative Fiction, and Identity, 1970–2015

Speculative fiction, no matter how fictional, is an inherently historical literary genre. With this in mind, this book presents an in-depth analysis of Québec's identity question as viewed through the prism of Speculative Fiction. It proposes innumerable configurations of a future that is, more often than not, fractured and bleak. Caron argues that these works both fictionalize and amplify broader collective fears and social anxieties around long term survival, language, ethnicity, race, religion, fascism, oppression and colonialism, while projecting the contemporary interpretations of Québec's past into the future. In doing so, Speculative Fiction from Québec reveals a constant preoccupation with the meanings of agency, individuality, collectivity, nationality, and territory in the same period.

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