The French Fifties Susan Weiner

This issue of Yale French Studies offers an inter-disciplinary 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.