A French-Canadian Magazine Resists the Invader : Radiomonde and French Artists (1939-1949)

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A FRENCH-CANADIAN MAGAZINE WITHSTANDS THE INVADER! Raidomonde and French-Canadian artists, 1939-1949 Radiomonde, the first Canadian Francophone magazine to have covered radio as well as theatre is seen here as a tool for observing the difficult constitution of a French Canadian cultural identity. It was the locus of various tensions and even contradictions between a will to develop a specific culture and the desire to be bound to a fatherland whose dominant ideological model had moved away from clericalism. This tension reached a climax when, during the war, French actors led by Jouvet were banned in Quebec, not only because they had been sent by the Vichy government but also because they threatened the jobs of local actors. The magazine thus crystallized a relationship marked simultaneously by attraction and repulsion.