Writing in the Shadows of the Long 1970s in Acadia and French Ontario. The Place of Emerging Literature in Critical Discourse
It seems that poetic expression in Acadia and French Ontario during the so-called long decade of the 1970s, spanning from 1968 to 1985, has marked the Acadian and Franco-Ontarian imagination to the point of becoming a founding myth in the discourse. This poetic expression has indeed allowed to trace the contours of a new way of expressing Acadian and Franco-Ontarian identities by inscribing them in a movement that went beyond the limits of a folkloric here to enter into a more global modernity. The characteristics of this expression have been celebrated to the point of establishing a set of markers that obscure a part of the literary production. This is true of women’s writing, which is more intimate, and of the generations of male and female writers who come to write at the turn of the 21st century. This article examines the treatment of this hidden part in the study of critical discourse in Acadia and French Ontario and, more specifically, the shadow cast by the work of the poets of the 1970s.