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May 1968

[Happy Thanksgiving!]

Background Reading:
Popkin, Modern France, pp. 303-308.

Further Reading:
David Caute, Sixty-eight: The Year of the Barricades (1988).

Kristin Ross, May '68 and its Afterlives (2002).

Michael Seidman, The Imaginary Revolution: Parisian Students and Workers in 1968 (2004).

Alain Touraine, The May Movement (trans. 1971).

Sherry Turkle, Psychoanalytic Politics: Freud's French Revolution (1979).

New York Times
report on French universities in 2006, focused on Nanterre (on-line). Though far from being truly objective, this piece does highlight some of the greatest differences between US and French higher education.

Primary Sources:
Hervé Bouges, ed., The French Student Revolt: The Leaders Speak (1968).

Marie Cardinal, The Words to Say It: An Autobiographical Novel (1982; 1993 trans.)

Timothy [T.J.] Clark, Christopher Gray, Donald Nicholson-Smith, and Charles Radcliffe, "The Revolution of Modern Art and the Art of Modern Revolution" (1967), on-line.

Julia Kristeva, Les Samourais (1990).

René Viénet, Enragés and Situationists in the Occupations Movement (1968), translation on-line



1968 posters
1968 posters

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