Abstract
The chapter examines the paradoxical triangle formed by Quebec literature in its relationship, on the one hand, with the United States, and, on the other, with the emerging literatures of the Canadian Aboriginal peoples (Amerindians and Inuit) which developed from the 1970s. A position, not always very comfortable, of "semi-periphery" resulted for the French-speaking province of Canada which had always believed itself to be colonized - at least until the Quiet Revolution - and which did not only to begin to discover its own status as a colonizer.
Indeed, historical periphery for the French, the British, the English-speaking Canadians or the United States, it nevertheless represents a center/empire for all of these peoples living in the shadow of great history and sharing Quebec soil with Franco-Canadians.