About the Book
The events of 1968 are often seen purely as a student revolution, but impacted on every aspect of French society – theatre, film, sexuality, race, the countryside, the factories. This volume explores the full diversity of this extraordinary upheaval, and shows how 1968 continues to reverberate in France today.
Table of Contents:
Illustrations Preface Contributors Acronyms PART I: RETHINKING THE EVENTS Rethinking May 68; J.Jackson The Moral History of 1968; J.Bourg Exploitation, Alienation and the Social Division of Labour in the May-June Movement in France; B.Gobille Beyond Tradition: the Strikes of May-June 1968; X.Vigna Inventing a Memory on the Extreme Left: the Example of the Maoists after 1968; P.Buton Algerian Reveries on the Far Right: Thinking About Algeria to Change France in 1968; T.Shepard Reaching out to Immigrants in May 68: specific or universal appeals?; D.Gordon The Arab Workers' Movement (1970-1976): Sociology of a New Political Generation; A.Hajjat 'And what then about 'our' problem?' – Gay Liberation in the Occupied Sorbonne in May 1968; M.Sibalis The 1970s Moment in Sexual Politics; M.Prearo May 68 and the Changes in Private Life: a 'sexual liberation'?; A-C.Rebreyend PART II: DECENTRING THE EVENTS Decentring the Events; A-L.Milne The Local, Regional and National in May-June 1968; M.Zancarini-Fournel Factory Disputes in the French Provinces in the '1968 Years': Brittany as a Case-Study; V.Porhel Peasant Insurgency in the '1968 Years' (1961-1981); J-P.Martin 'In Marseilles we remained calm': The Myths and Realities of Marseilles's May 68; A-L.Ollivier The Grand Tour of Daniel Cohn-Bendit and the Europeanism of 1968; R. I.Jobs From Dream to Reality: the Birth of 'Vincennes'; C.Dormoy-Rajramanan Artists and Architects in May 1968: An Aesthetics of Disappearance; J-L.Violeau PART III: PERFORMING THE EVENTS Performing the Revolution; J.S.Williams L'Entrée libre à l'ex-théâtre de France: the Occupation of the Odéon and the Revolutionary Culture of the French Stage; K.Bredeson The Politics of Theatre and the Theatre of Politics: from Paris to Avignon via Villeurbanne, May-July 1968; E.Loyer Malle e/on mai: Louis Malle's Takes on May 68; R.Panchasi Falling on Deaf Ears, Again: Hervé Le Roux's Reprise (1997); N.Rachlin Sex Power: Bernadette Lafont and the SexualRevolution in French Cinema circa 1968; R-F.Lack Orgasm Without Limits: May 68 and the History of Sex Education in Modern France; T.Chaplin Epilogue The Day My Father Fell Silent [Le Jour où mon père s'est tu] [Extracts]; V.Linhart General Bibliography Select Filmography
About the Author :
JULIAN BOURG Associate Professor, History Department, Boston College, USA
KATE BREDESON Assistant Professor of Theatre, Reed College, Portland, USA
PHILIPPE BUTON Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Rheims, France
TAMARA CHAPLIN Assistant Professor of History, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
CHRISTELLE DORMOY-RAJRAMANAN Doctoral student, the University of Paris X-Nanterre, France
BORIS GOBILLE Lecturer in Politics, the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyons, France
DANIEL GORDON Senior Lecturer in European History, Edge Hill University, UK
ABDELLALI HAJJAT Maître de conférences (lecturer) in Political Science, the University of Paris X-Nanterre, France
JULIAN JACKSON Professor of Modern French History, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
RICHARD IVAN JOBS Associate Professor of History, Pacific University, USA
ROLAND-FRANÇOIS LACK Senior Lecturer in French, University College London, UK
EMMANUELLE LOYER Professor of Contemporary History, the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris, France
JEAN-PHILIPPE MARTIN Independent historian
ANNE-LAURE OLLIVIER Attachée Temporaire d'Enseignement et de Recherche, the University of Strasbourg, France
ANNA-LOUISE MILNE Senior Lecturer in French and Comparative Studies, the University of London Institute in Paris, France
ROXANNE PANCHASI Associate Professor, Department of History, Simon Fraser University, Canada
VINCENT PORHEL Maître de conférences (lecturer), the Universityof Lyon-1, France
MASSIMO PREARO Doctoral student in Politics, the École des Hautes Études, Paris, France
NATHALIE RACHLIN Professor of French, Scripps College, USA
ANNE-CLAIRE REBREYEND Teaches at the Lycée Français in Madrid, Spain
MICHAEL SIBALIS Professor of history, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
TODD SHEPARD Associate Professor of History, the Johns Hopkins University, USA
XAVIER VIGNA Maître de conférences (lecturer) in Contemporary History, the Université de Bourgogne, France
JEAN-LOUIS VIOLEAU Teaches at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
JAMES S. WILLIAMS Professor of Modern French Literature and Culture, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Review :
'...a valuable resource for any scholar looking to consider an extraordinary period of modern French history in new, 'rethought' contexts.' - Matthew Ahluwalia, University of Sheffield, French History
