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Simona Munari, « «Molière go home»: “Le Bourgeois gentleman” d’Antonine Maillet sur la scène littéraire québécoise et acadienne (1978) », Studi Francesi, ID : 10.4000/studifrancesi.53625
While adaptations of English and French classics multiply in Québec, «Molière go home», the student manifesto published in 1970 at the University of Sudbury, hints at a dramaturgy perceived as foreign, as opposed to the new French-Canadian creations. The Acadian author Antonine Maillet offers an original interpretation of such linguistic and cultural renewal in her Molière-inspired comedy Le Bourgeois gentleman, where she uncovers the linguistic uncertainty afflicting the minorities living in an evolving diglossic context. The satire of Anglomania becomes the subject of a scenic performance between imitation and parody; besides, it also suggests a reflection on the linguistic and cultural preservation exercised by Québec over the other Canadian francophone regions.