ABSTRACT
The opportunity to revisit Quebec culture and its developing understanding of its own globalized late-modernity, both through its own literature and culture and as part of a continually developing set of intercultural and interlinguistic relationships. It arrives at a moment when the questions the author wish to raise on the globalizing terms of this modernity are unavoidably projected against a background of conflicting cultural politics. Central to this discussion is Lepage's ongoing artistic engagement with East Asian cultures and dramatic traditions, with which Quebec culture traditionally has maintained relatively few extended exchanges, or even discussions about what a possible contact between these two divergent cultures might look like. And believe it or not, this is still surprisingly close to where the author find himself, both in Quebec and the rest of North America today. American set of French-language traditions begins to emerge, as well as continually emerging post-bilingual contacts with both other Western and distinctly non-Western elements.
