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Le retour de refoulé: Les Crises d'octobre

David Leahy

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David Leahy

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The proposed paper will analyse selected October Crisis related novels and films (i.e. Gérald Godin’s L'ange exterminé, Michel Basilières’ Black Bird, Michel Brault’s Les Ordres, Pierre Falardeau’s Octobre) in the light of recent revelations in a Radio-Canada two-part documentary series, Crise d’octobre: 40 ans, and current discourses about "terrorism”. The paper will consider how such examples of cultural production can be said to represent the October Crisis as a matrix-event, “a moment that reshapes [an existing] hegemony” at “structural” and “conscious levels” (Ian McKay, Rebels, Reds, Radicals: Rethinking Canada’s Left History (2005, 95); and how many of the discourses around the fortieth anniversary of the Crisis can be said to efface and/or revise the extent to which the moment and the immediate aftermath of the Crisis was also an instance of radical supersedure, a moment when people’s “understanding of the self and society, right and wrong, […] change[d] radically (105).”