À la frontière subtile entre la littérature et l’Histoire : l’identité caméléonesque d’Esther Brandeau
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https://doi.org/10.25071/1916-0925.40483Mots-clés :
Esther Brandeau, Les Juifs en Nouvell-France, l'identité juive dans la littérature québécoise, le roman historique, Canadian Jewish fiction, Jews of New FranceRésumé
Officially, the Jewish presence in New France was prohibited under the French regime. Nevertheless, Esther Brandeau arrived there in 1738 and refused to convert. As peripheral figures in a predominantly Christian world, Jews like Brandeau used several strategies to survive and become chameleonic figures. This study aims to highlight Brandeau as she is portrayed in the archives as well as by the author Pierre Lasry, who wrote the very first novel about this historical character. Through this comparison, we can observe the relationship between reality and fiction, history and literature, the historian and the writer. Brandeau’s story serves as a reminder that Sephardic Jews settled not only in the Mediterranean basin following their expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula, but well beyond Europe, including in Canada.
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