Un nouveau « moment historiographique » pour le Québec ? Essai d’interprétation

Abstract

In the past few years, there has been a proliferation of studies questioning in a new way the genealogy of historical knowledge in Quebec and its conditions of elaboration. This observation is to be made in view, notably, of the production of a fairly significant number of Master’s degrees, PhDs and research projects which have contributed to making historiography a renewed and more autonomous and diversified field of investigation. These researches open up new working areas ranging from epistemology and intellectual history to history-memory relationships and the history of women, and to the analysis of school textbooks or the historiographical treatment of specific objects. That is to say that twenty years after the numerous debates on « revisionism » triggered by Ronald Rudin, Quebec would experience something like a new « historiographical moment » whose outlines, still difficult to define, would benefit from being clarified and made explicit. This article aims to offer a first inventory of this new moment by analysing a body of new historiographical studies published over the past thirteen years. It also raises, impliciitely, the question of the relative autonomy of a Quebec historiographical « field » under construction.