Québécois-ness

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1. uncountableThe quality of being Québécois.

   Though a degree of quebecoisness had come, a unified pays had not yet come.

   2006, Elaine Keillor, quoting Stephen Thirlwall, “Gilles Vigneault”, in Music in Canada: Capturing Landscape and Diversity, Montreal, Que.; Kingston, Ont.; London; Ithaca: McGill-Queen’s University Press, →ISBN, page 308

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   Lawrence Ferlinghetti wondered aloud if the gathering wasn’t wildly exaggerating Kerouac’s Québécois-ness.

   1993, Ken McGoogan, Visions of Kerouac, Lawrencetown Beach, N.S.: Pottersfield Press, →ISBN, page 77

   These examples: a dream, a civic slogan, an act of violence, a news report, etc., must stand alone. Not one of them is representative of ‘Québécois-ness.’

   1994, Elspeth Probyn, “Love In A Cold Climate: Singularities of Being and Longing”, in Border/Lines, page 26

   For these reasons , Léo’s “Because I dream, I’m not” marks his desperate struggle against losing himself in—and to—his (crazy) family, and by extension, to the threat of emasculation, to his class, and to his Québecoisness,

   1995, Post Script, page 25

   Therefore, that would seem to indicate that most sovereignists seem not to have an exclusive view of Québécois-ness.

   1997 August 31, Élie Charest, “Lettre ouverte au ministre Stéphane Dion”, in qc.politique (Usenet)

   Formerly viewed as cultural symbol par excellence of Québécois-ness, chanson has been attributed a new status as it has become a generic label applied to Québec’s musical terrain as a whole.

   1997 May, Line Grenier, Jocelyne Guilbault, “Créolité and Francophonie in music: Socio-musical repositioning where it matters”, in Cultural Studies, volume 11, number 2, Taylor & Francis, published 2005, page 223