{"product_id":"tremblay-les-belles-soeurs-paperback","title":"Tremblay: Les Belles-Soeurs - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichel Tremblay\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRachel Killick\u003c\/b\u003e (Volume Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis play takes a crate of gift stamps, a Montreal kitchen, and 15 women, and mixing fast-moving dialogue, monologue and chorus, produces a critique of \"women's place\", Quebec society, and modern consumerism. It created uproar when first performed in 1968, being both vilified for its parochial vulgarity and praised for its revelation of the dynamic resources of popular language. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the perspectives newly opened by the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s, Michel Tremblay's depiction of the women's squabbles is a devastating critique, at once comic and bleak, of the traditional Quebec ideal of Catholic wife and mother. Killick's introduction begins by situating the realistic presentation of female subordination, under-achievement and frustration with the cultural development of modern Quebec. She then shows how it achieves added resonance as a symbol of the closed horizons of Quebec society, and more broadly, exceeding the purely Canadian context as a biting indictment of materialistic values, Finally \u003ci\u003eLes Belles-Soeurs\u003c\/i\u003e is examined as a virtuoso theatrical experiment combining traditional dialogue and the classical unities of time, space and action with the individual and group voices of cabaret and chorale. A glossary is provided for linguistic difficulties.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Killick\u003c\/b\u003e is Emeritus Professor of Quebec Studies and Nineteenth-Century French Studies at the University of Leeds and French Editor of \u003ci\u003eModern Language Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Her publications include \u003ci\u003eVictor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris\u003c\/i\u003e (1994).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 8.56 x 5.56 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 24, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460750053613,"sku":"9781853995507","price":59.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/tremblay-les-belles-soeurs-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}