Curative Illnesses: Medico-National Allegory in Québécois Fiction

by Julie Robert

During a time of uncertainty over collective identity and social transformation, Quebec novels started getting sick - after 1940, the number of narratives about illness, disease, and sick characters intensified. For the last seventy years, generations of authors have turned to medically oriented stories to represent day to day life and political turmoil. In Curative Illnesses, Julie Robert investigates how the theme of sickness is woven into literature...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773547053
• ISBN13: 9780773547056
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"