Overview
On February 7, 2012, as students in Quebec prepared to vote to go on strike, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois gave a rousing speech: ?What you do today will be remembered. The decision you make will tell future generations who we were. And you already know what is being said today about our generation. That we are the generation of comfort and indifference, the generation of cash and iPods; that we are individualists, egotists; that we don't care about anything, except our navels and our gadgets. Aren't you tired of hearing this? Well, I am. Luckily, today we have a chance to prove that it's not true, that it has never been true.? The ?Maple Spring? saw more than 300,000 students across Quebec protest a tuition fee hike by striking from their classes. Nadeau-Dubois takes readers step-by-step through the strike, recounting the confrontations with journalists, ministers, judges, and police. Along the way he exposes the moral and intellectual poverty of the Quebec elite and celebrates the remarkable energy of the students who opposed the mercenary attitude of the austerity agenda. In Defiance is translated from the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award winner for non-fiction, Tenir t?te (Lux ?diteur)
Full Product Details
Author: Gabriel Nadeau-DuBois
Publisher: Between the Lines
Imprint: Between the Lines
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.227kg
ISBN: 9781771131827
ISBN 10: 1771131829
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 01 February 2016
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois's Tenir t?te brings us behind the scenes of the spring of 2012 so we can hear what the government did not want to hear and what the media were not always able to report. In a simple and direct style, it raises the question of the future of democracy. - Jury of the Governor General's Literary Awards
"""Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois's Tenir t?te brings us behind the scenes of the spring of 2012 so we can hear what the government did not want to hear and what the media were not always able to report. In a simple and direct style, it raises the question of the future of democracy."" - Jury of the Governor General's Literary Awards"
Author Information
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois was the lead spokesperson for CLASSE, one of the more vocal student bodies that participated in the 2012 student strikes that swept Quebec. He is currently working on a Masters in Sociology and is a regular panelist on Radio-Canada. In Defiance is translated from the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award-winning book Tenir t?te.
