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Québécois-ness en · NOUN

Etymology

From Québécois + -ness.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The quality of being Québécois.
   • They imagined themselves as the antithesis of the sheep, and as such the sheep remains as a pervasive trope against which Québécois-ness is defined and expressed. 2016, Geneviève Zubrzycki, “Key Trope: The Sheep”, in Beheading the Saint: Nationalism, Religion, and Secularism in Quebec, Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, part two (Making and Debating Québécois-ness), page 143:
   • If “Québécois-ness” draws on ethnicity, then all descendants of the early French immigrant settlers should be equal partners in one extended ethnic family.[…]If the initial ambiguity surrounding the definition of Québécois-ness signaled an identity crisis, now, in the 1980s, the crisis matured into a fission. 2015, Uriel Abulof, “The French Canadians”, in The Mortality and Morality of Nations: Jews, Afrikaners, and French-Canadians, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, The Québécois: The Rise and Demise of Ethnonationalism, pages 115 and 118:
   • For these reasons , Léo’s “Because I dream, I’m not” marks his desperate struggle against losing himself in—and to—his (crazy) family, and by extension, to the threat of emasculation, to his class, and to his Québecoisness, 1995, Post Script, page 25:
   • Therefore, that would seem to indicate that most sovereignists seem not to have an exclusive view of Québécois-ness. 1997 August 31, Élie Charest, “Lettre ouverte au ministre Stéphane Dion”, in qc.politique (Usenet):
   • Formerly viewed as cultural symbol par excellence of Québécois'''-ness, chanson has been attributed a new status as it has become a generic label applied to Québec’s musical terrain as a whole. 1997 May, Line Grenier, Jocelyne Guilbault, “Créolité and Francophonie in music: Socio-musical repositioning where it matters”, in Cultural Studies, volume 11, number 2, Taylor & Francis, published 2005, page 223:
   • Though a degree of quebecoisness had come, a unified pays had not yet come. 2006, Elaine Keillor, quoting Stephen Thirlwall, “Gilles Vigneault”, in Music in Canada: Capturing Landscape and Diversity, Montreal, Que.; Kingston, Ont.; London; Ithaca: McGill-Queen’s University Press, →ISBN, page 308:
   • Lawrence Ferlinghetti wondered aloud if the gathering wasn’t wildly exaggerating Kerouac’s Québécois'''-ness. 1993, Ken McGoogan, Visions of Kerouac, Lawrencetown Beach, N.S.: Pottersfield Press, →ISBN, page 77:
   • These examples: a dream, a civic slogan, an act of violence, a news report, etc., must stand alone. Not one of them is representative of ‘Québécois-ness.’ 1994, Elspeth Probyn, “Love In A Cold Climate: Singularities of Being and Longing”, in Border/Lines, page 26:

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