TY - JOUR
T1 - Identities and oppressions: Jean-Claude Lauzon's Léolo (1992)
AU - Larrivée, Pierre
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This article approaches the fragmentation of identities characteristic of contemporary Western societies through the 1992 film Léolo by Jean-Claude Lauzon. Although it does explore linguistic, social, religious and ethnic divisions, this major piece of the Quebec repertoire recasts the sociolinguistic conflict between vernacular and formal practices (Labov 1972; Blanche-Benveniste 2002), raising questions of status and choice. This conflict is subsumed by the dialectics between primary and secondary culture. The cultural and linguistic opposition finds a primary metaphor in the film's central motif of the duality of dream and reality. No more than the cultural and linguistic can this opposition find a synthesis. This impossible reconciliation defines the constitutive rupture of the human psyche itself.
AB - This article approaches the fragmentation of identities characteristic of contemporary Western societies through the 1992 film Léolo by Jean-Claude Lauzon. Although it does explore linguistic, social, religious and ethnic divisions, this major piece of the Quebec repertoire recasts the sociolinguistic conflict between vernacular and formal practices (Labov 1972; Blanche-Benveniste 2002), raising questions of status and choice. This conflict is subsumed by the dialectics between primary and secondary culture. The cultural and linguistic opposition finds a primary metaphor in the film's central motif of the duality of dream and reality. No more than the cultural and linguistic can this opposition find a synthesis. This impossible reconciliation defines the constitutive rupture of the human psyche itself.
UR - http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/nc/2008/00000006/00000002/art00003?crawler=true
U2 - 10.1386/ncin.6.2.85_1
DO - 10.1386/ncin.6.2.85_1
M3 - Article
SN - 2040-0578
VL - 6
SP - 2
JO - New Cinemas
JF - New Cinemas
ER -