Yale French Studies, Number 98; The French Fifties

by Edited by Susan Weiner

• ISBN13: 9780300087307
• ISBN10: 0300087306
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-11-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

This issue of Yale French Studies offers an inter-disciplinary exploration of the French-speaking world during the "long" decade of the 1950s -- from the Liberation (1944) to the Evian accords between France and the provisional government of Algeria (1962). The volume focuses broadly on the reshaping of national identities in these years. The unsettled landscape that emerges stands in dramatic contrast to the myth of stability that was actively constructed for the French 1950s -- a product of the long-standing French tendency toward immobilisme that existed alongside social, political, and artistic ferment.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface: The French Fifties	1	(4)
Susan Weiner
The Right to Innocence: Literary Discourse and the Postwar Purges (1944-1953)	5	(24)
Anne Simonin
Broken Engagements: Sartre, Camus, and the Question of Commitment	29	(21)
Debarati Sanyal
Pierre Restany and the Nouveaux Realistes	50	(16)
Michele C. Cone
Mohammed Dib and the French Question	66	(13)
Winifred Woodhull
Demystification: A Dialogue Between Barthes and Lefebvre	79	(19)
Michael Kelly
L'Eternel Decoratif: French Art in the 1950s	98	(21)
Romy Golan
The Fernandel Factor: The Rivalry Between the French and American Cinema in the 1950s	119	(16)
Richard Kuisel
History, Memory, and Narrative Nostalgia: Pham Duy Khiem's Nam et Sylvie	135	(14)
Karl Ashoka Britto
Terrains de Rencontre: Cesaire, Fanon, and Wright on Culture and Decolonization	149	(18)
Eileen Julien
1955: The Year the Gaulois Fought the Cowboy	167	(15)
Serge Guilbaut
The Fire This Time: Black American Expatriates and the Algerian War	182
Tyler Stovall