Gabrielle Roy's Prophetic Vision: How a Canadian Novelist Anticipated Vatican II
Wyndham Lewis argued that the artist is always writing a detailed history of the future because only the artist is fully aware of the present. The Canadian novelist Gabrielle Roy is a case in point. Reacting to the racism and bigotry of the world around her, she created a quasi-utopian fiction pur...
| Published in: | Journal of religion and popular culture |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2017]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Roy, Gabrielle 1909-1983, La petite poule d'eau
/ Utopia
/ Interfaith dialogue
/ Vatican Council 2. (1962-1965 : Vatikanstadt)
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| RelBib Classification: | CE Christian art KBQ North America |
| Further subjects: | B
Gabrielle Roy
B prophetic fiction B proto-ecumenist B Vatican II B Where Nests the Water Hen |
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| Summary: | Wyndham Lewis argued that the artist is always writing a detailed history of the future because only the artist is fully aware of the present. The Canadian novelist Gabrielle Roy is a case in point. Reacting to the racism and bigotry of the world around her, she created a quasi-utopian fiction purged of those elements in Where Nests the Water Hen. Its two main characters and their Jewish and Protestant acquaintances presciently act out the ecumenical directives of Vatican II (1962-1965) well over a decade before they were formulated. To read the novel today is to experience both eras at one sitting. |
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| ISSN: | 1703-289X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.29.3.3140 |