Volkswagen Blues caught my attention because it’s a road trip from Gasp, Qubec to San Francisco via the Oregon Trail and it goes through places I’ve been to. By portraying Native culture as dying or dead and presenting hybrid culture as the only viable solution for Quebec, Poulin threatens to eliminate the Native, replacing it instead with a new, generic hybrid. Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin (1988) Original French title: Volkswagen Blues. Rather than enjoying a good book like a mug of coffee in the afternoon, otherwise they. The average reader, reading at a speed of 300 WPM, would take 3 hours and 27 minutes to read Volkswagen Blues by.

Poulin’s use of the mixed-blood or Metis identity as a vehicle to promote hybridity, while it appears to promote inclusion, arguably leads to erasure of Indigenous cultures and nations. Volkswagen Blues Jacques Poulin, but end up in harmful downloads. In order to promote a move towards a more tolerant and diverse society, Poulin embraces the hybrid as an alternative. The novel attempts to break down the master narrative of a superior “pure laine” culture through the quests of its two main characters – a writer’s-blocked Québécois, Jack, and Pitsémine, who hopes to reconcile the two halves of her mixed identity (Québécoise and Innu). These books include the following: Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, Une histoire amricaine by Jacques Godbout and Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff. Jacques Poulin’s popular and award-winning novel Volkswagen Blues celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2009, and it holds a prominent position in Québécois and Canadian literary histories.