Carabins ou activistes? : L'idéalism et la radicalisation de la pensée étudiante à l'Université de Montréal au temps du Duplessisme

By looking in detail at the attitudes and activities of university students in Quebec from 1950 to 1958, Nicole Neatby provides an important new perspective on social and intellectual transformations during the turbulent fifties. Focusing on a particular group of people - including Hubert Aquin, Robert Bourassa, Denis Lazure, and Jacques-Yvan Morin - Neatby makes us aware of the attitudes and initiatives of the young people who became the active participants of the Quiet Revolution. Studies of young activists have tended to focus on the period of the 1960s. Neatby shows us that the youth of the sixties were not the only ones to distinguish themselves by their social activism and idealism - students of the Duplessis era were equally conscientious and idealistic about wanting reform and felt a strong sense of social responsibility towards the world at large. On the Quebec scene they openly criticized religious authorities and increasingly saw themselves as agents of reform in educational matters. Their activism led them to take strike action and to organize a sit-in. Neatby shows that students, like so many other social groups in the Quebec of the 1950s, were far from quiescent during the so-called "Grande noirceur." The attitudes of these activists provide a background for understanding student demands today, such as educational reform, free access to universities, and the abolition of student fees. Table des matières PREMIÈRE PARTIE: Introduction 1 Le cadre institutionnel 2 La composante carabin de l'identité étudiante 3 L'engagement international des leaders étudiants 4 L'engagement social des leaders étudiants traditionalistes 5 L'engagement social des leaders étudiants modernistes DEUXIÈME PARTIE: Introduction 6 À la défense des droits de l'étudiant canadien-français 7 L'émergence d'un groupe d'alliés réformistes dans le domaine de l'éducation 8 L'émergence d'une pensée étudiante radicale Épilogue Abréviations utilisées Bibliographie Tableau Remerciements Index A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P Q R S T U V