French and Francophone Studies at Vassar College

Monday, November 9 at 5:00 pm in Rockefeller Hall, Room 200, Vassar College

Through a focus on the stage-play Being at Home with Claude by René-Daniel Dubois and its filmic adaptation by Jean Beaudin, I propose a reading of Québec as a Queer space. In this Francophone province surrounded by hundreds of millions of Anglophones marked by cultural tensions even prior to calls for a "Québec libre," notions of what constitutes minority and majority identities seem never fully fixed. Our look at the Queer as an allegory for Québec may well reveal a Québec that participates in making, creating, and nourishing (itself as) Queerness.

Generously sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty. Co-sponsored by the Departments of French and Francophone Studies, and Film, and International Studies and Women's Studies Programs.