An analysis of the discrepancies between Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska's diaries broadcasted by Radio Canada and her published version, La 'Tentationde Dire' - The theory and practice of autobiography

This article seeks to analyse some of the discrepancies which exist between Madeleine Oullette-Michalska's diaries broadcasted by Radio-Canada in the 1980's and the published version of her diary la Tentation de dire. Journal . Our attention will also be focused on Ouellette-Michalska's grand-mother' s diary which is extensively quoted in the author's unpublished and publish ed diaries, giving rise to a spectacular process of intertextuality. It is our intention to show how the rewriting of Clara Belanger-Dumais' diary is an important discursive strategy in the construction of a poetics of women' s autobiographical narratives founded, at least in part, on the conceptuali zation of the "Other".