Wpływ deportacji Akadian na estetykę i poetykę francuskojęzycznego teatru w Kanadzie

Abstract

This article has two goals. The first goal is to present a historical process which forced theCanadians to become a minority towards the British and to show the complicated relationshipsin which these two nationalities had to live after the numerous wars waged inNorth America between the British Crown and the Kingdom of France. The second goalis to show the evolution of the aesthetics of the francophone Canadian theater beingthe result of the Acadian’s deportation. In this context, three theatrical plays, which aredramatic texts representative of various stages of the difficult Acadian-Canadian history,will be used as examples: Le Théâtre de Neptune (1609) as a representative of the theater of the period of the French dominance in the New France; Le Drame du peuple acadien(1930) as a stage in the poetics of the Acadian martyrology; and La martyrdom Saguine(1971), depicting the aesthetics influenced by the Quiet Revolution, where Acadiabecomes a nostalgic place, in a way an open-air museum, where thoughts are returnedwithout a tormenting sense of injustice.