2006
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Cahiers franco-canadiens de l'Ouest ; vol. 18 no. 2 (2006)
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Martin Geoffroy, « Les représentations identitaires au Festival du Voyageur et la représentation de ces identités dans les médias de Winnipeg », Cahiers franco-canadiens de l'Ouest, ID : 10.7202/018951ar
This research paper focuses on the issue of Francophone identity in a minority situation and the identities conveyed by the Festival du Voyageur, a winter festival featuring highly symbolic content celebrating the Francophone history in Manitoba. At the theoretical level, this research shows how such an event, however innocuousit may seem, fulfils certain social functions within the community by showcasing a highly idealized collective identity. This research specifically studies two types of identity: on the one hand, an identity that can be observed concretely and empirically, on the other hand, an identity portrayed by various media in Winnipeg. The corpus of the study comprises observations made by people taking part in the Festival, but also an analysis of a media corpus which includes four media: SRC’s Le Manitoba ce soir, the CBC’s local televised news, the Winnipeg Free Press and the newspaper La Liberté. Our hypothesis maintains that a medium’s specific orientation has an influence on its content.