Gabrielle Roy's Prophetic Vision: How a Canadian Novelist Anticipated Vatican II

Wyndham Lewis argued that the artist is always writing a “detailed history of the future” because only the artist is fully aware of the present. The Canadian novelist Gabrielle Roy is a case in point. Reacting to the racism and bigotry of the world around her, she created a quasi-utopian fiction pur...

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Main Author: Kelly, Darlene (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Saskatchewan [2017]
In: Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2017, Volume: 29, Issue: 3, Pages: 177-189
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Roy, Gabrielle 1909-1983, La petite poule d'eau / Utopia / Interfaith dialogue / Vatican Council 2. (1962-1965 : Vatikanstadt)
IxTheo Classification:CE Christian art
KBQ North America
Further subjects:B Gabrielle Roy
B prophetic fiction
B proto-ecumenist
B Vatican II
B Where Nests the Water Hen
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Summary:Wyndham Lewis argued that the artist is always writing a “detailed history of the future” because only the artist is fully aware of the present. The Canadian novelist Gabrielle Roy is a case in point. Reacting to the racism and bigotry of the world around her, she created a quasi-utopian fiction purged of those elements in Where Nests the Water Hen. Its two main characters and their Jewish and Protestant acquaintances presciently act out the ecumenical directives of Vatican II (1962-1965) well over a decade before they were formulated. To read the novel today is to experience both eras at one sitting.
ISSN:1703-289X
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.29.3.3140