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| genre = non-fiction, erotica |
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'''Fernand Dorais''' (March 8, 1928 – January 16, 2003) was a Canadian writer, [[Jesuit]] priest and academic.<ref name=lexpress>[https://l-express.ca/fernand-dorais-fit-de-lontario-francais-un-objet-detudes/ "Fernand Dorais fit de l'Ontario français un objet d'études"]. ''[[L'Express (Toronto)|L'Express]]'', April 17, 2012.</ref> A professor of French literature and translation at [[Laurentian University]] in [[Greater Sudbury|Sudbury]], Ontario from 1969 to 1993, he was noted for his work as a key builder of [[Franco-Ontarian]] cultural identity, through both his academic research and his role in the development of many of the Franco-Ontarian community's contemporary cultural institutions.<ref name=keyleader>"Dorais was key francophone leader". ''[[Sudbury Star]]'', January 21, 2003.</ref> |
'''Fernand Dorais''' (March 8, 1928 – January 16, 2003) was a Canadian writer, [[Jesuit]] priest and academic.<ref name=lexpress>[https://l-express.ca/fernand-dorais-fit-de-lontario-francais-un-objet-detudes/ "Fernand Dorais fit de l'Ontario français un objet d'études"]. ''[[L'Express (Toronto)|L'Express]]'', April 17, 2012.</ref> A professor of French literature and translation at [[Laurentian University]] in [[Greater Sudbury|Sudbury]], Ontario from 1969 to 1993, he was noted for his work as a key builder of [[Franco-Ontarian]] cultural identity, through both his academic research and his role in the development of many of the Franco-Ontarian community's contemporary cultural institutions.<ref name=keyleader>"Dorais was key francophone leader". ''[[Sudbury Star]]'', January 21, 2003.</ref> |
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Born in [[Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu]], Quebec, Dorais was educated at the [[Université de Montréal]], [[Columbia University]] and the [[Sorbonne]]. He taught at [[Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal]] and [[Collège Lionel-Groulx]] in [[Saint-Jérôme, Quebec|Saint-Jérôme]] in the 1950s and 1960s before moving to Sudbury to join the faculty at Laurentian University.<ref name=argument>[http://www.revueargument.ca/article/1969-12-31/493-fernand-dorais-et-la-decolonisation-des-marges.html "Fernand Dorais et la décolonisation des marges"]. ''Argument'' (vol. 12 no. 1), Fall 2009 – Winter 2010.</ref> |
Born in [[Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu]], Quebec, Dorais was educated at the [[Université de Montréal]], [[Columbia University]] and the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]]. He taught at [[Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal]] and [[Collège Lionel-Groulx]] in [[Saint-Jérôme, Quebec|Saint-Jérôme]] in the 1950s and 1960s before moving to Sudbury to join the faculty at Laurentian University.<ref name=argument>[http://www.revueargument.ca/article/1969-12-31/493-fernand-dorais-et-la-decolonisation-des-marges.html "Fernand Dorais et la décolonisation des marges"]. ''Argument'' (vol. 12 no. 1), Fall 2009 – Winter 2010.</ref> |
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Fernand Dorais | |
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Born | Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada | March 8, 1928
Died | January 16, 2003 Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, Canada | (aged 74)
Pen name | Tristan Lafleur |
Occupation | Writer, academic |
Genre | non-fiction, erotica |
Subject | Franco-Ontarian cultural identity and literature |
Notable works | Entre Montréal ...et Sudbury, Témoins d'errances en Ontario français, Hermaphrodismes |
Fernand Dorais (March 8, 1928 – January 16, 2003) was a Canadian writer, Jesuit priest and academic.[1] A professor of French literature and translation at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario from 1969 to 1993, he was noted for his work as a key builder of Franco-Ontarian cultural identity, through both his academic research and his role in the development of many of the Franco-Ontarian community's contemporary cultural institutions.[2]
Born in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Dorais was educated at the Université de Montréal, Columbia University and the Sorbonne. He taught at Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal and Collège Lionel-Groulx in Saint-Jérôme in the 1950s and 1960s before moving to Sudbury to join the faculty at Laurentian University.[3]
Career[edit]
At Laurentian, he became the first major academic at any Canadian university to advocate for the study of Franco-Ontarian literature as a subject in its own right, rather than as a minor footnote to Quebec literature.[3] He also served as a mentor to the Coopérative des artistes du Nouvel-Ontario, a group of Laurentian University art students who would go on to play a transformative role in Franco-Ontarian culture in the 1970s through creative projects such as the Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario theatre company, the La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario art gallery, the La Nuit sur l'étang music festival and the progressive rock band CANO.[4]
Dorais published several works of academic literature during his lifetime, including Entre Montréal… et Sudbury : pré-textes pour une francophonie ontarienne and Témoins d'errances en Ontario français : réflexions venues de l'amer.[3] He also published some fiction work, most notably Hermaphrodismes, a collection of two erotic novellas – one from each of a heterosexual and gay perspective – which he published under the pseudonym "Tristan Lafleur" as the first fiction title ever released by the Prise de parole publishing house.[5] The book caused a minor scandal, and was withdrawn from publication in 1978 after Dorais bought out all the remaining copies of the book and burned them.[1]
Following his retirement from Laurentian University in 1993, Dorais returned to Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, where he died in 2003.[2] Following his death, many of his published and unpublished writings were repackaged by Prise de parole as Le recueil de Dorais, a three-volume set.[1] The first book, Volume I – Les essais, collected his non-fiction writings; the second, Volume II – Trois contes d'androgynie, was a reissue of Hermaphrodismes along with a never before published third erotic fiction story; the third, Volume III – Mémoire d'un religieux québécois, 1928–1944, collected his autobiographical writings and included the first published acknowledgement that Dorais self-identified as a gay man.[6]
Works[edit]
- 1963: Mon babel
- 1970: Un temps des poètes a-temporel. À propos d'un livre de Gilles Marcotte: Le temps des poètes
- 1975: Hermaphrodismes (as Tristan Lafleur)
- 1984: Entre Montréal ...et Sudbury, Pré-textes pour une francophonie ontarienne
- 1990: Témoins d'errances en Ontario français : réflexions venues de l'amer
- 2011: Le recueil de Dorais, volume 1 – Les essais, textes réunis et présentés par Gaston Tremblay
- 2012: Le recueil de Dorais, volume 2 – Les trois contes d'androgynie
- 2016: Le recueil de Dorais, volume 3 – Mémoire d'un religieux québécois, 1928–1944
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Fernand Dorais fit de l'Ontario français un objet d'études". L'Express, April 17, 2012.
- ^ a b "Dorais was key francophone leader". Sudbury Star, January 21, 2003.
- ^ a b c "Fernand Dorais et la décolonisation des marges". Argument (vol. 12 no. 1), Fall 2009 – Winter 2010.
- ^ "Les essais du professeur Fernand Dorais: immortalisés". Ici Radio-Canada, October 28, 2011.
- ^ Gaétan Gervais and Jean-Pierre Pichette, Dictionnaire des écrits de l'Ontario français: 1613–1993. University of Ottawa Press, 2010. ISBN 9782760307575. p. 385.
- ^ "Dès l'adolescence, il découvrira son homosexualité, cette " tendre atmosphère d'affectivité ", comme il la nomme, qui pour lui ne représente alors " rien de mal ni de péché ".". "Le recueil de Dorais, vol.3". Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
- 1928 births
- 2003 deaths
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- Canadian male novelists
- Canadian literary critics
- Canadian novelists in French
- Canadian non-fiction writers in French
- 20th-century Canadian Jesuits
- Canadian gay writers
- Canadian LGBT novelists
- Gay memoirists
- LGBT Roman Catholic priests
- Academic staff of Laurentian University
- Université de Montréal alumni
- Columbia University alumni
- University of Paris alumni
- People from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
- People from Saint-Jérôme
- Writers from Quebec
- Writers from Greater Sudbury
- Franco-Ontarian people
- Canadian erotica writers
- Canadian male essayists
- 20th-century Canadian essayists
- 20th-century Canadian memoirists
- Canadian expatriates in France
- 20th-century Canadian LGBT people
- Gay novelists