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 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.  ContentsSusan Weiner  Editor’s Preface: The French FiftiesAnne Simonin  The Right to Innocence: Literary Discourse and the Postwar Purges (1944-1953)Debarati Sanyal  Broken Engagements: Sartre, Camus, and the Question of CommitmentMichèle Cone  Pierre Restany and the Nouveaux RéalistesWinifred Woodhull  Mohammed Dib and the French QuestionMichael Kelly  Demystification: A Dialogue Between Barthes and LefebvreRomy Golan  L’Eternel Décoratif: French Art in the 1950sRichard Kuisel  The Fernandel Factor: The Rivalry Between the French and American Cinema in the 1950s Karl Britto  History, Memory, and Narrative Nostalgia: Pham Duy Khiem’s Nam et SylvieEileen Julien  Terrains de Rencontre: Césaire, Fanon, and Wright on Culture and DecolonizationSerge Guilbaut  1955: The Year the Gaulois Fought the CowboyTyler Stovall  The Fire This Time: Black American Expatriates and the Algerian War.