The French seventies /

A reexamination of 1970s France as a decade of intellectual, cultural and political consequence, both then and now. Number 143 of Yale French Studies, “The French Seventies,” reintroduces and reorients readers to a decade typically considered a period of disillusionment and malaise in the wake of th...

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Other Authors: Golsan, Richard Joseph, 1952- (Editor), Higgins, Lynn A. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2024].
Series:Yale French studies ; no. 143.
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Table of Contents:
  • Editors' Preface: Between Two Mays: Shifting Paradigms in the French 1970s / Richard J. Golsan and Lynn A. Higgins
  • I. The Past in the Present: The Spirit of the Times. An Interview with Richard J. Golsan and Lynn A. Higgins / Henry Rousso
  • An Interview with Richard J. Golsan / Pascal Bruckner
  • Êtes-vous plus français que lui? Nation, History, Identity / Margaret Atack
  • II. Legacies of May: Continuing Contestation after 1968. Love in 1977 / Julian Bourg
  • 1970s Women in Revolution: A Personal Story / Annette Lévy-Willard
  • Bidasses en lutte: Confronting the Third Republic in 1970s France / Donald Reid
  • III. Exemplary Figures. The Return of the "Savage" in 1970s French Political Thought / Jacob Collins
  • René Girard in the 1970s: Arguing the Dynamics of Desire and Violence in an Age of Suspicion / Richard J. Golsan
  • The 1970s Mode d'Emploi: Three Films by Georges Perec / Lynn A. Higgins
  • IV. France and Its Others. Neighbors and Strangers: Constructing Difference in a Parisian Contact Zone (1971-1981) / Julie Kleinman
  • Terrorism in France (1969-1981) / Jenny Raflik.