May ’68 has inspired cultural, social and political movements across the world but has been used also to criticise them. This book interrogates the consideration of the revolts in France as the pinnacle or even paradigm of a particular avatar in a revolutionary lineage that would include the liminal moments of 1789 and 1917. But it also engages in a mapping of the synchronous but not necessarily aligned rebellious events and purported legacies that orbited around that momentous year in the West and its internal periphery, on the other side of the Iron Curtain and in the strategic centre of the Global South constituted by Latin America in the 1960s. The collection combines fresher perspectives with more established scholarship in history, philosophy, critical theory, literary studies, psychoanalysis and visual culture through which the contributors deconstruct the rich and paradoxical conditions, development and vestiges, as creative as well as troubling, of an iconic moment of the twentieth century.

Álvaro J. Vidal Bouzon is Assistant Professor of Hispanic and Lusophone Studies at the University of Nottingham and a fellow of the Galician Academy of the Portuguese Language. He is the author of A Galiza (não) é longe daqui…? Lendo(-se) em imagens, mirando(-se) em textos, a monograph on the representation of Galician (national) identity. Adam Sharman is Professor of Latin American Studies and Critical Theory in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Deconstructing the Enlightenment in Spanish America and Otherwise Engaged: After Hegel and the Philosophy of History. Katherine Shingler was Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of The French Art Novel, 1900–1930 and was also general editor of the journal Nottingham French Studies.