Este examen pretende exponer no solo las relaciones entre Volkswagen Blues y sus fuentes culturales, de origen diverso, sino también la forma en que esos intertextos empapan el género de la road novel en su conjunto. Este artículo analiza la intertextualidad de la novela Volkswagen Blues de Jacques Poulin, una aproximación francocanadiense a la road novel. Keywords: Volkswagen Blues On the Road Jacques Poulin Quebec Oregon Trail Pioneers Canadian literature road novel transtextuality intertextuality.
The study shows how Poulin depicts the crucial role of non-Anglo-American identities in contemporary American culture and explains the influence of world literatures in Poulin's work. Considering the intertextual presence in Volkswagen Blues, the analysis ponders whether it is limited to this novel or is a manifestation of Americanness and, thus, a piece of evidence of multiculturahty in the hegemonic American discourse.
In order to achieve this purpose, the study identifies in the novel instances of intertextuality which are analyzed within Genette's framework for transtextuality. The aim of the paper is to examine not only the relationships between Volkswagen Blues and its culturally diverse sources, but also to show how those multicultural intertexts permeate the road novel genre. Abstract : This article analyses the intertextuality of the novel Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin, a French-Canadian take on the road novel.
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