{"id":27332,"date":"2023-04-19T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?p=27332"},"modified":"2025-09-19T11:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:13:05","slug":"faculty-publication-jennifer-henderson-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/2023\/faculty-publication-jennifer-henderson-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Publication: The Eye of the Master: Figures of the Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois Colonial Imaginary"},"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                        Faculty Publication: The Eye of the Master: Figures of the Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois Colonial Imaginary\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                                    \n\n<p>Dalie Giroux<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jennifer Henderson&nbsp;<\/strong>(trans.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McGill-Queen\u2019s UP, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois political vision of the twentieth century, sovereignty became synonymous with mastery. French<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canadians sometimes claimed solidarity with racialized and Indigenous peoples, yet they saw their liberation as a matter of taking their rightful place in the seat of the oppressors. The idea of mastery has prevented the Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois from seeing that their liberation is bound up with that of other groups oppressed by colonial powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Eye of the Master confronts the missed opportunities for a decolonial version of ind\u00e9pendance in Quebec by examining the quest for mastery that has been at the root of every version of independence offered to the people of Quebec since the mid-twentieth century. Exploring political discourse, popular culture, and the family photo album, Dalie Giroux revisits the mythology of being \u201cmasters in our own house\u201d and identifies the obstacles blocking a more comprehensive version of liberation based on solidarity. Drawing from the living forces of Indigenous thought and anti-racist, ecological, and feminist movements, Giroux envisions life without conquest, domination, exploitation, and surveillance. Making the case for a different future, beginning in the here and now, The Eye of the Master offers a major new intervention in contemporary political thought to Canadian readers and all those who imagine a different North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois political vision of the twentieth century, sovereignty became synonymous with mastery. French Canadians sometimes claimed solidarity with racialized and Indigenous peoples, yet they saw their liberation as a matter of taking their rightful place in the seat of the oppressors. The idea of mastery has prevented the Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois from seeing that their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":27047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[144,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-publications","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27335,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27332\/revisions\/27335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}