Bringing Vietnam Home
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8940339 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Salar Mohandesi (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 219-251 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00161071-4322930 |
| OpenAlex | W2796101175 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 38 |
The Vietnam War made May ’68 possible. The war prompted young radicals to experiment with new forms of struggle, reinvent radical internationalism, and ultimately embrace revolution. Transnational exchanges and a changing political conjuncture pushed some radicals to argue that the best way to aid their Vietnamese comrades abroad was to bring the war home to France. Their efforts to translate the exemplary struggles in Vietnam into a domestic idiom helped trigger the events of May ’68. Seen in this transnational context, May ’68 was one front among many in a broader, worldwide anti-imperialist struggle, led primarily by the Vietnamese. In France, Vietnam became a universal symbol of revolt, supercharging other struggles, while radicals elsewhere were inspired to translate the French May into their own national contexts. This article shows just how profoundly Vietnam shaped the radical imaginary of the “68 years.” La guerre du Vietnam a rendu Mai 68 possible. La guerre a permis à de jeunes radicaux d'expérimenter de nouvelles formes de lutte, de reconstruire un internationalisme fort et de se lancer dans la révolution. Les échanges transnationaux ainsi qu'une nouvelle conjoncture politique entraînèrent certains radicaux à affirmer que la meilleure façon d'aider leurs camarades vietnamiens était d'importer la guerre en métropole. Leurs efforts pour traduire les luttes exemplaires des Vietnamiens dans le contexte français participèrent au déclenchement des événements de Mai 68. Pris dans une perspective transnationale, Mai 68 était un front parmi d'autres dans une lutte anti-impérialiste globale, conduite principalement par les Vietnamiens. En France, le Vietnam devint un symbole universel de révolte, s'articulant avec d'autres luttes, tandis que les événements poussèrent les radicaux d'autres pays à traduire le Mai français dans leurs propres contextes nationaux. Cet article montre que le Vietnam a façonné profondément l'imaginaire radical des « années 68 »
Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Ethnology · Humanities · Linguistics · Political science · Vietnam War · Vietnamese · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Gender practices in contemporary Vietnam
Bringing the War Home
Trotskyism and Maoism
May '68 and Its Afterlives
Shadow Cold War
Vietnam’s Women in Transition
Postcolonialism
The Discovery of the Third World
Vietnamese Women at War
Die 68er Bewegung
Black Is a Country
The Sino-Soviet Split
Soul Power
Radicals on the Road
Black Is a Country
The Gramscian Moment
Guerrilla Diplomacy
Tricontinental Routes of Solidarity
Journeys to Others and Lessons of Self
At the crossroads of world attitudes and reaction’
Vive La Révolution and the Example of Lotta Continua
The Red Guards of Paris
Trotskyism and Maoism
Che Guevara
The Mystery of May 1968
Cinema in the Hands of the People
Becoming one with the people
Aux origines de la génération 1968
The Second Indochina War
Ecological consequences of Amazonian warface
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |