Other '68s: Lineages and Legacies of May ’68

Abstract

May ’68 has inspired cultural, social and political movements across the world but has been used also to criticise them. This book interrogates the consideration of the revolts in France as the pinnacle or even paradigm of a particular avatar in a revolutionary lineage that would include the liminal moments of 1789 and 1917. But it also engages in a mapping of the synchronous but not necessarily aligned rebellious events and purported legacies that orbited around that momentous year in the West and its internal periphery, on the other side of the Iron Curtain and in the strategic centre of the Global South constituted by Latin America in the 1960s. The collection combines fresher perspectives with more established scholarship in history, philosophy, critical theory, literary studies, psychoanalysis and visual culture through which the contributors deconstruct the rich and paradoxical conditions, development and vestiges, as creative as well as troubling, of an iconic moment of the twentieth century.

Citation

Vidal Bouzon, Á. J., Sharman, A., & Shingler, K. (Eds.). (2025). Other '68s: Lineages and Legacies of May ’68. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.3726/b15667

• Book Type: Edited Book
• Online Publication Date: Jan 7, 2025
• Publication Date: Jan 7, 2025
• Deposit Date: Jan 29, 2025
• Publisher: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Series Title: Cultural History and Literary Imagination
• Series Number: 37
• Edition: First
• ISBN: 9781789974300
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/b15667
• Keywords: May ’68, 1968, France, Eastern Europe, Latin America, history, politics, philosophy, intellectuals, visual culture, revolution, workers’ movement, student movement
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/44689780
• Publisher URL: https://www.peterlang.com/document/1324428