Francophone Keynote Address with Dr. Chloé Savoie-Bernard
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Series
Association events, Black and racialized programming
Language
Bilingual
Speaker(s)
Chloé Savoie-Bernard, Queen's University
With financial support from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ Open Programming Fund
The television series Jasmine, which aired on TVA in 1996, featured the first Black protagonist in Quebec television history, played by Linda Malo, as a Black policewoman with the Montreal Police Department. In light of this popular culture figure who seeks to solve crimes in a climate of high racial tension, we will question how the posture of the Black investigator is fruitful for reflecting on the autobiographical posture of the racialized subject in a milieu where her own identity represents a danger. Our starting hypothesis is that, highly criminalized by society, the Black person, in the position of the investigator, opens up hermeneutical possibilities that only literature can stage as a space where conflict can endure.
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