Yale French Studies, Number 98

This issue of Yale French Studies offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the French-speaking world during the long decade of the 1950sfrom 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 1950sa product of the long-standing French tendency toward immobilisme that existed alongside social, political, and artistic ferment. Contents Susan Weiner Editors Preface: The French Fifties Anne Simonin The Right to Innocence: Literary Discourse and the Postwar Purges (1944-1953) Debarati Sanyal Broken Engagements: Sartre, Camus, and the Question of Commitment Michle Cone Pierre Restany and the Nouveaux Ralistes Winifred Woodhull Mohammed Dib and the French Question Michael Kelly Demystification: A Dialogue Between Barthes and Lefebvre Romy Golan LEternel Dcoratif: French Art in the 1950s Richard Kuisel The Fernandel Factor: The Rivalry Between the French and American Cinema in the 1950s Karl Britto History, Memory, and Narrative Nostalgia: Pham Duy Khiems Nam et Sylvie Eileen Julien Terrains de Rencontre: Csaire, Fanon, and Wright on Culture and Decolonization Serge Guilbaut 1955: The Year the Gaulois Fought the Cowboy Tyler Stovall The Fire This Time: Black American Expatriates and the Algerian War.