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Title: Other '68s

Other '68s

Lineages and Legacies of May ’68

by Álvaro J. Vidal Bouzon (Volume editor) Adam Sharman (Volume editor) Katherine Shingler (Volume editor)
©2025 Edited Collection XIV, 330 Pages
Romance Studies
Series: Cultural History and Literary Imagination, Volume 37

Summary

May ’68 has inspired cultural, social and political movements across the world but has also been used 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.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the editors
  • About the Book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: (Other) Takes on a Strange Spring (Álvaro J. Vidal Bouzon)
  • Part I France et Au-Delà
  • In the Shadow of the Parisian Doxa: ’68s Regional and Transnational Others (Chris Reynolds)
  • May ’68, the French Working Class and Revolution (Mitchell Abidor)
  • Hostages in Their Own Homes: Transnational Hospitality in the Wake of the Soviet Occupation of Czechoslovakia (Vladimir Zorić)
  • May ’68: The Shards of a Subject (Gabriel Albiac)
  • Part II Intellectuals In and After ’68
  • (Long) Goodbyes to the Reality of the Mirror? Novelizing with(out) Subject and with(out) Ends in Gabriel Albiac’s Mayo del 68. Una educacion sentimental/Fin de fiesta (Álvaro J. Vidal Bouzon)
  • The Ends of Revolution: Derrida and the ‘Thought of ’68’ (Adam Sharman)
  • Lacan’s May ’68: Analysing the Institution in the Wake of the Discourse of the University (Colin Wright)
  • Self-Reflexive Maoism? Alberto Moravia’s Pre-’68 Critique of the Consumer Society (Regine Strätling)
  • Commitment and Distance: Hans Magnus Enzensberger in 1968 (Matthias Uecker)
  • Part III Visual ’68s
  • Un étrange printemps: An Interview with Dominique Beaux (Katherine Shingler)
  • The Repressed Visual Legacies of May ’68 (Antigoni Memou)
  • Hidden Rebellion in Popular Youth Films in Yugoslavia in the Run-Up to 1968 (Jovana Đurović)
  • Arriving after the Fact: ’68 and the Politics of Belatedness in Exit Photography Group’s Survival Programmes (1982) (Stephanie King)
  • Select Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index
  • Series index

Other ’68s

Lineages and Legacies of May ’68

Álvaro J. Vidal Bouzon,
Adam Sharman and
Katherine Shingler (eds)

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Oxford - Berlin - Bruxelles - Chennai - Lausanne - New York

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Vidal Bouzon, Álvaro J., 1968- editor. | Sharman, Adam, 1963-

 editor. | Shingler, Katherine, editor.

Title: Other ’68s : lineages and legacies of May ’68 / Álvaro J. Vidal

 Bouzon, Adam Sharman, Katherine Shingler.

 Other titles: Other 1968s

Description: Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang Publishing, [2025] | Series:

 Cultural history and literary imagination, 1660-6205 ; vol. no. 37 |

 Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2024024565 (print) | LCCN 2024024566 (ebook) |

 ISBN 9781789974300 (paperback) | ISBN 9781789974317 (ebook) |

 ISBN 9781789974324 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D.

Classification: LCC D848 .O84 2025 (print) | LCC D848 (ebook) | DDC

 909.826--dc23/eng/20240603

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024024565

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024024566

Cover image: Philippe Gras, Odéon 1968. Reproduced with permission from Gras Ngoc Suong.

Cover design by Peter Lang Group AG

ISSN 1660-6205

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DOI 10.3726/b15667

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About the editors

Álvaro J. Vidal Bouzon is Assistant Professor of Hispanic and Lusophone Studies at the University of Nottingham and a fellow of the Galician Academy of the Portuguese Language. He is the author of A Galiza (não) é longe daqui…? Lendo(-se) em imagens, mirando(-se) em textos, a monograph on the representation of Galician (national) identity.

Adam Sharman is Professor of Latin American Studies and Critical Theory in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Deconstructing the Enlightenment in Spanish America and Otherwise Engaged: After Hegel and the Philosophy of History.

Katherine Shingler was Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of The French Art Novel, 1900–1930 and was also general editor of the journal Nottingham French Studies.

About the book

May ’68 has inspired cultural, social and political movements across the world but has also been used 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, creative as well as troubling, of an iconic moment of the twentieth century.

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For Toni

Acknowledgements

We should like to thank all those who presented papers at the conference on which this book is based. A special mention goes to our two plenarists, Chris Reynolds and Gabriel Albiac, for their generosity at the event and since. A word likewise for our colleague, Paul Smith, who not only presented a brilliant overview of French politics at the time of May ’68 but also helped shape the line-up of the conference speakers. We are particularly grateful to the many people (including colleagues of the then newly formed Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Nottingham) who attended the two days and joined in the debate. Those attendees will forgive us if we single out Keith Reader for making the journey. Keith, who, among many other things, wrote on French mai, is sadly no longer with us. It was gratifying to see the large lecture room packed with staff and students for the screening of the documentary film, Mai, un étrange printemps. Our thanks go to the filmmakers, Dominique Beaux and Jean-Baptiste Evette, for their presence throughout the conference. On a personal note, we remain grateful to former Nottingham languages colleagues, Bernard McGuirk and Diana Knight, for introducing one of us to what has since become known as ‘French theory’. Our gratitude goes also to Laurel Plapp, whose expert, helpful editorial hand indefatigably guided our journey. We would like to express our appreciation, also, to the anonymous reader, whose suggestions allowed for a better tuning of the book. Finally, the editors would like to thank the contributors and the publisher for their patience while we finished the volume: life and a pandemic got in the way.

Álvaro J. Vidal Bouzon

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XIV, 330
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2025
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9781789974317
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9781789974324
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9781789974331
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DOI
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English
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2025 (January)
Keywords
May ’68 1968 France Eastern Europe Latin America history politics philosophy intellectuals visual culture revolution workers’ movement student movement
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Biographical notes

Álvaro J. Vidal Bouzon (Volume editor) Adam Sharman (Volume editor) Katherine Shingler (Volume editor)

Álvaro J. Vidal Bouzon is Assistant Professor of Hispanic and Lusophone Studies at the University of Nottingham and a fellow of the Galician Academy of the Portuguese Language. He is the author of A Galiza (não) é longe daqui…? Lendo(-se) em imagens, mirando(-se) em textos, a monograph on the representation of Galician (national) identity. Adam Sharman is Professor of Latin American Studies and Critical Theory in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Deconstructing the Enlightenment in Spanish America and Otherwise Engaged: After Hegel and the Philosophy of History. Katherine Shingler was Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of The French Art Novel, 1900–1930 and was also general editor of the journal Nottingham French Studies.

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