Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce the 40th Anniversary of Québec Studies. Published on behalf of the American Council for Québec Studies, Québec Studies is a twice yearly, fully refereed journal, publishing articles dealing with all aspects of Québec society and Francophone Canadian culture. To celebrate this milestone, we are pleased to share a message from the journal’s Editor-in-chief: Amy J. Ransom, from Central Michigan University:
Québec Studies is celebrating its 40th anniversary with its Spring/Summer 2023 issue! Founded by a handful of U.S-based scholars in 1983 to promote the study of Québec and the French presence in the rest of North America, the journal now reflects an international perspective. To consider the challenges and changes it faced over the past four decades, a group of past editors gathered at our parent organization’s recent meeting, the American Council for Québec Studies Biennial Conference last October. Despite the physical challenges of those early days without word processing software, the journal consistently produced cutting edge scholarship on Québec’s history, literature, politics, language, film, and economic policies. From observing the aftermath of the failed 1980 Referendum on Sovereignty-Association and the rise of “migrant literature” in Québec, to the Franco-American experience in New England, through eye-witness reflections on the 1995 Referendum and analyses of national identity expressed in literature from the colonial period through the end of the twentieth-century, back issues of Québec Studies explore relevant topics in an array of fields. In the twenty-first century our contributors continue to explore subjects like Québec’s evolving expressions of nationalism, the French cultural presence in Louisiana and l’Acadie (Maritime Canada), the rise of ecocriticism in francophone Canadian literature, and an ever-growing number of articles on Québec’s dynamic cinema.
We are particularly proud of volume 75 (another landmark number!) which celebrates this 40th anniversary with a special dossier on Indigenous francophone literature from Québec. In addition to an interview with author J. D. Kurtness (Ilnue), it features articles on the “relève autochtone,” including literary works by Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui (Wendat), Natasha Kanapé Fontaine (Innu), and Émilie Monnet (Anishinaabe/French), and the films of Tracy Deer (Mohawk), Kim O’Bomsawin (Wabanaki), and Sonia Bonspille Boileau (Mohawk).
The anniversary issue also includes selected reflections from past editors on the journal’s evolution from our October 2022 gathering. Québec Studies welcomes submissions in French and in English on virtually any aspect of Québécois culture and society, as well as analyses of the fait français in the rest of Canada and the United States.
We are also pleased to share a selection of Free to Read articles to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Québec Studies, chosen by the journal’s editors (past and present) to represent each decade of the journal’s publication with an article from each era:
1980s: Louis Balthazar, ‘Québec Nationalism after Twenty-Five Years‘. Issue 5 (1987)
1990s: Jane Koustas, ‘Quebec Literature in Translation: Loaded Canons‘. Issue 23 (1997)
2000s: Pamela V. Sing, ‘Edmonton imaginaire chez Jacques Ferron, Nancy Huston, et Paulette Blanchette-Dubé‘. Issue 40 (2005)
2010s: Darryl Leroux, ‘Québec Nationalism and the Production of Difference: The Bouchard-Taylor Commission, the Hérouxville Code of Conduct, and Québec’s Immigrant Integration Policy‘. Issue 49 (2010)
2020s: Jean Morency, ‘Solitaires mais solidaires: Le rapport au continent et à la nation chez Jacques Poulin, Louis Hamelin et Éric Plamondon‘. Issue 73 (2022)
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