A Nation Beyond Borders: Lionel Groulx on French-Canadian Minorities

Recipient of the 2005 Governor General's Literary Award in non-fiction, Quand la nation debordait les frontieres is considered the most comprehensive analysis of Lionel Groulx's work and vision as an intellectual leader of a nationalist school that extended well beyond the borders of Quebec. For over five decades, historians and intellectuals have defined the nationalist discourse primarily in territorial terms. In this regard, Groulx has been portrayed-more often than not-as the architect of Quebecois nationalism. Translated by Ferdinanda Van Gennip, A Nation Beyond Borders will continue to spark debate on Groulx's description of the parameters of the French-Canadian nation. Highlighting the often neglected role of French-Canadian minorities in his thought, this book presents the Canon as an uncompromising advocate of solidarity between all French-Canadian communities.

Table of Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE - THE FRENCH MINORITIES IN THE WORK AND THOUGHT OF LIONEL GROULX: THE BLIND SPOT OF HISTORIANS OF FRENCH-CANADIAN NATIONALISM French-Canadian nationalism and the emergence of the theory of provincialism The historians and L'Action francaise The historians and the thought of Lionel Groulx Modernity, "Americanness" and the French minorities Quebec and the French minorities in recent historiography CHAPTER TWO - THE FRENCH MINORITIES: VESTIGES OF AN EMPIRE: FRENCH CANADA, ITS APOSTOLIC VOCATION AND FOUNDING MISSION The French-Canadian nation according to Lionel Groulx: conceptual clarifications Nation and state in Groulxist nationalism Essential conditions: tradition and will The minorities and French-Canadian messianism French Canada and the theory of the providential creation of nations Providence, history and French America The minorities and the founding peoples theory The minorities and the pact of 1867 The minorities in the Anglo-Protestant world CHAPTER THREE - QUEBEC AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE MINORITIES: THE TIES THAT BIND Quebec, the metropolis of French Canada The citadel and the vanguard The French minorities and the ineffectualness of Quebec National solidarity at work L'Action francaise: preaching by example Building bridges: la fete de Dollard, the "saving organization" and other measures CHAPTER FOUR - FRANCO-ONTARIANS AND REGULATION 17: THE AWAKENING OF THE NATION Groulx and French Ontario: contacts and connections In Ottawa In Southern Ontario The French-Canadian nationalist movement and the catalyzing role of Regulation 17 Groulx intervenes in the Franco-Ontarian crisis The sou des ecoles franco-ontariennes The neuvieme croisade The lecture: another means of action Lionel Groulx, L'Action francaise and the Franco-Ontarian crisis The schools conflict as represented in the review The Grand Prix d'Action francaise Alonie de Lestres and L'Appel de la race The novel and how it was received by Franco-Ontarians Literature and theology Jules de Lantagnac and Napoleon Belcourt CHAPTER FIVE - THE FRENCH MINORITIES AND THE "FRENCH STATE": THE INDEPENDANTISTE THEORY DURING THE INTERWAR PERIOD L'Action francaise and "Our political future": the 1922 symposium Reaction to the 1922 symposium Lionel Groulx, the French minorities and the idea of independence during the 1930s CHAPTER SIX - FROM THE SECOND WORLD WAR TO THE QUIET REVOLUTION: LIONEL GROULX, THE FRENCH MINORITIES AND QUEBECOIS NEO-NATIONALISM (1945-1967) Anticlericalism, laicization and materialism: Groulx sees his intellectual heritage questioned The intellectual context of the postwar period Groulx, the neo-nationalists and the burial of the French minorities Groulx and the minorities: ongoing relationships Groulx and the Conseil de la vie francaise en Amerique Contact maintained through lectures, articles and travel The minorities in Groulx's historical work The minorities and the theory of messianism in the later works of the old maitre Groulx, the minorities and the Institut d'histoire de l'Amerique francaise CONCLUSION SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

About the Author :
Michel Bock is a full professor in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa, director of the Centre de recherche sur les francophonies canadiennes and associate professor at the University of Sudbury. He is a specialist in the intellectual history of Quebec and French Canada. His work focuses on the factors that contributed to the rise and decline of French Canada as an identity reference and institutional reality, as well as the origin and scope of the various projects that succeeded it within the Canadian Francophonie.

Review :
[L]e plus important livre en études canadiennes des dix dernières années. Il serait nécessaire que ce livre vivant et clair soit bientôt traduit en anglais [note: c'est maintenant fait].--Yves Laberge, Université d'Ottawa "British Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 32, nos 1-2, p. 139-140. https: //doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2020.8"