Hockey, P.Q.
Canada’s Game in Quebec’s Popular Culture
by Amy J. Ransom
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Pub Date Jun 03 2014 | Archive Date Jun 08 2014
Description
A wide-ranging study that examines everything from the blockbuster movie franchise Les Boys to the sovereigntist hip hop group Loco Locass, Hockey, PQ explores how Canada’s national sport has been used to signify a specific Québécois identity. Amy J. Ransom analyses how Québécois writers, filmmakers, and musicians have appropriated symbols like the Montreal Forum, Maurice Richard, or the 1972 Summit Series to construct or critique images of the Québécois male.
Close analyses of hockey-themed narratives consider the soap opera Lance et compte (“He shoots, he scores”), the music of former pro player Bob Bisonnette, folk band Mes Aïeux, rock group Les Dales Hawerchuk, and the fiction of François Barcelo. Through these examinations of the role hockey plays in contemporary francophone popular culture, Ransom shows how Quebec’s popular culture uses hockey to distinguish French-Canadians from the French and to rally them against their English-speaking counterparts. In the end, however, this study illuminates how the sport of hockey unites the two solitudes.
AMY J. RANSOM is an associate professor of French at Central Michigan University.
Advance Praise
“Hockey, PQ is the very first book to address Quebec’s relationship with hockey with such scope and perspective. Amy J. Ransom has a very impressive knowledge of the subject matter – who else could devote so many pages to hockey-player-turned-singer Bob Bissonnette?”
Benoît Melançon, Department of French Literature, Université de Montréal and author of The Rocket: A Cultural History of Maurice Richard
“Hockey, PQ is clever and insightful – an impressively smart book. The writing is crisp and fresh, as is Amy J. Ransom’s perspective. Ransom’s book explains ably and critically for anglophone readers the nature of Québécois affinities for and antagonisms with ‘notre sport national.’ Covering film, music, science fiction, and myth, this book maps out a broad scope for hockey’s place in the popular consciousness.”
Andrew Holman, Department of History, Bridgewater State University
“The product of an impressive amount of research, Hockey, PQ offers an original and important contribution to the study of hockey in Canadian culture.”
Jamie Dopp, Department of English, University of Victoria
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| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781442616196 |
| PRICE | CA$29.95 (CAD) |
