L'affirmation régionale: l'exemple de la poésie madawaskayenne de Sébastien Bérubé en Acadie

In this article, we propose to question the different identity postures adopted by the inhabitants of the Madawaska region, a predominantly French-speaking enclave located on the border of New Brunswick and Quebec, in Canada, as well as on the border of Maine, in the United States. The particularities that emerge from the regional historical narrative, official and non-official, will be used in the reading of the first two collections of poems by a Madawaska author, Sébastien Bérubé, to understand how poetry can be used to represent and produce an identity that, while regional, can nevertheless tend towards the Other. This regional identity, which can often be summarized as a binary opposition between "us" and "them", reveals traces of multiple belongings. Thus, the questioning of Sébastien Bérubé's Madawaskan poetry may shed new light on this mix of "us" and "them" in the construction and affirmation of a regional identity in constant transformation.