Minorité francophone défavorisée dans la dramaturgie de Marcel Dubé : Zone (1953), Florence (1957), Un simple soldat (1958)

Abstract

A major figure in the Quebec Theater, Marcel Dubé belongs to the generation of the playwrights that introduces the francophone theater to French Canada. Born in 1930, contemporaneous with Michel Tremblay, Jean Barbeau, Antonine Maillet and Michel Garneau, becomes known to the public at large by his play Zone, written in 1953, in a period of a “great political and economic darkness”. Subsequently, Florence from 1957 and An ordinary soldier from 1958, depict a minority of young disadvantaged people; a francophone minority facing all powerful Anglophones. The main characters of these three plays as representatives of an entire generation in the history of Quebec, serve us as an example in order to show a certain reality of francophone Canada.