Minority Report
An Alternative History of English-Language Arts in Quebec
- Publisher
- Guernica Editions
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2011
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550713558
- Publish Date
- Oct 2011
- List Price
- $20.00
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Description
Quebec's English-language arts have experienced a remarkable revival in the 21st century. The music scene has attracted international attention. Arcade Fire's Grammy award for Album of the Year in 2011 even attracted political attention. The National Assembly voted unanimously to recognize the role played by Quebec's artists - francophone and anglophone - as ambassadors on the world stage. Quebec's English--speaking community is also producing award-winning writers, film-makers, visual artists, dancers and theatre performers.
About the authors
Currently executive director of the English Language Arts Network, a community-oriented group dedicated to promoting and supporting anglophone artists, Guy Rodgers has always had one goal in mind: strengthening the English-language arts community in his adopted city of Montreal. He has also been either at the head of or managing the Quebec Drama Federation, the Saidye Bronfman Centre, Playwrights' Workshop Montreal and Quebec Writers’ Federation.
Dimitri Nasrallah was born in 1977, during the Lebanese civil war. In 1981,
his family went into exile, living in Athens, Kuwait, and Dubai before
immigrating to Canada in 1988. He received a Bachelor's degree from York
University in 2001, and then a Master's degree from Concordia University in
2003. He currently lives in Montreal. Apart from his creative work, he is a cultural critic whose writing has appeared
in national and international publications, including the Montreal Gazette,
Montreal Review of Books, Exclaim!, Toronto's Eye Weekly, Urb, and several
others.Blackbodying is his first novel.
Dimitri Nasrallah's profile page
A long-time Montrealer, Marianne Ackerman was born in Belleville, Ontario. She has an MA in drama from the University of Toronto and studied French at the Sorbonne. Her three published novels include the best-seller Jump. A frequently produced playwright, her new comedy Triplex Nervosa will be part of the Centaur Theatre’s 2014-15 season. She is publisher of the online arts magazine Rover, found at www.roverarts.com. The novella and stories in Holy Fools mark her first foray into short fiction.