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A 5 page book review that discusses, summarizes and evaluates Kristin Ross's May '68 and Its Afterlives, which addresses the events of May 1968 in France. The reviewer argues that the text is scholarly, well-written and very persuasive, as Ross disputes the official version of these events. No additional sources cited.
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formulated as the era itself was being lived. As the popularity of "Gone With the Wind" in the 1930 attests, the antebellum Old South also took on a mythic quality
in the American imagination. It is Kristin Rosss principal thesis in May 68 and Its Afterlives that the events that occurred in France in May of 1968 have
undergone a similar transformation, in which fact blends with fantasy, to the point that these events "cannot now be considered separately from the social memory and the forgetting that surround
them" (Ross 1). By "forgetting," Ross explains that this refers to how later accounts of what occurred in May 1968 have been edited, in a manner of speaking, that is,
deleted and obscured through the prism of memory so that precisely what occurred and how it should be interpreted are blended with how a society wants to view itself. Ross
calls this process "active forgetting" (Ross 3). She asserts that this "revisionist rendering" has reinterpreted May of 68 as an artistic moment in the collective psyche of the
French people (Ross 154). Americans and other Anglophones may have difficulty remembering precisely what occurred in May 1968 in France. Specifically, it was a student-led workers strike that shut
down the entire country. Nine million people, "across all sectors of public and private employment-from department store clerks to shipbuilders," simply stopped working (Ross 3). It began as a variety
of student protests, with the militants espousing left-wing causes and slogans. When the French government, under the leadership of World War II hero Charles de Gaulle, tried to disband the
strikes with police action, this infuriated the protestors further and the protests spread. It was the largest "mass movement in French history," as well as the largest strike in the
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