{"id":184,"date":"2017-05-03T15:13:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T19:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/donsmith\/?page_id=184"},"modified":"2026-03-18T05:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:13:22","slug":"beyond-two-solitudes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/donsmith\/beyond-two-solitudes\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Smith, Beyond Two Solitudes, Qu\u00e9bec and  English Canada relations."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Beyond Two Solitudes\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"75\" height=\"94\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/donsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/203\/don11.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-185\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8220;Smith&#8217;s writing is lively stuff. The sort of thing that raves footprints in the mind.&#8221;<br>\n(The Toronto Star)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond Two Solitudes offers a fresh approach in the present constitutional and political debate based on mutual respect and a desire to live together in harmony. The French edition has been hailed as a &#8220;lively and passionate account&#8221; (Voir) and as an &#8220;explosive book, a vibrant plea for a renewed country&#8221; (Radio-Canada).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DONALD SMITH speaks from within, as an English Canadian who has learned French, moved to Quebec and successfully integrated into Francophone society. Beyond Two Solitudes answers the anti-Quebec rhetoric of Diane Francis, Barbara Amiel, and others. Smith interviews English Canadians who have chosen French as their language of creation: singer and songwriter Jim Corcoran, novelist Nancy Huston, horticulturist Larry Hodgson, and American-born singer Nanette Workman, who has made her career in Quebec and France. He also interviews novelist Neil Bissoondath, now a Quebec City resident, who gives a compelling account of what French Quebec and so-called multiculturalism are really about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DONALD SMITH is a professor of literature at Carleton University. He is the French-language publisher of major English-Canadian writers such as Robertson Davies, Stephen Leacock, and Lucy Maud Montgomery. Professor Smith is the author of numerous articles and several books dealing with French-Canadian writers. He is co-author of the best seller Dictionary of Canadian French (Stoddart). His book of interviews with French-Canadian writers (Voices of Deliverance, Anansi) prompted Alberto Manguel to write: &#8220;A delight and essential reading for anyone interested in Quebec&#8221; (Books in Canada).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISBN 1 55266 001 X<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feruwood Publishing<br>\nBox 9409, Station A, Halifax, NS, Canada B3K 5S3<br>\nWeb Site: http:\/\/home.iSTAR.ca\/~fernwood\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISBN 2-7604-0607-5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/donsmith\/beyond-two-solitudes\/dune-nation-a-lautre-des-deux-solitudes-a-la-cohabitation\/\">Click here for critical reaction<\/a>. |  <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/donsmith\/beyond-two-solitudes\/dune-nation-a-lautre-des-deux-solitudes-a-la-cohabitation\/\">Cliquer ici pour l&#8217;accueil critique<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Smith&#8217;s writing is lively stuff. 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