Wow! eBook
Memories of May '68: France's Convenient Consensus
Author(s): Chris Reynolds (Author)
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication Date: 5 Sept. 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 0708324150
- ISBN-13: 9780708324158
Book Description
Memories of mai 68 charts and analyses the emergence of the conventional representation of the French events of 1968 and argues that the dominance of this narrative, despite its limitations, stems from the convenience that such a consensus provides for those that have been pivotal in shaping the collective memory of this critical moment in recent French history.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘An imaginative and richly sourced challenge to narrow, Paris-centred accounts of May ’68. A fine contribution to the historiography’ –Professor Robert Gildea, University of Oxford, Professor of Modern History
Chris Reynolds updates perspectives on May 1968 by way of an overdue concentration on the events in the provinces, along with a reassertion of the generally underestimated importance of reformist elements. May as spectacle is cogently demystified here, in a study that provides a significant and thoroughly-documented corrective to more glamorised views and representations. –Professor Keith Reader, University of Glasgow, Professor of Modern French Studies
. . . this is a significant book that needs to be read by everyone who, like it or not, works in the May 1968 industry . –Daniel A. Gordon, Edge Hill University, for Modern and Contemporary France Journal
About the Author
Senior Lecturer of French and European Studies, Nottingham Trent University
