Kadour Naïmi

Freedom in Solidarity (eBook, ePUB)

My Experiences in the May 1968 Uprising
Übersetzer: Porter, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Naïmi is an internationally known playwright, filmmaker, and author with numerous books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry published in French. Freedom in Solidarity is his first book to be translated into English.

The book turns a unique lens on the famous events of May 68, in that it's author was a young Algerian student studying in Strasbourg, France, when things exploded.

Unlike many nonfiction books on the uprising, this one is very much a memoir that captures the quotidian details and swirling emotions of what it was like to be caught up in those historic events.

Naïmi writes very much with an eye to a contemporary audience looking to learn lessons from both the promise and dashed hopes of May '68. In an important sense, he has carried the torch of rebellion for the last fifty years, ready for the next fire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AK Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849353519
• Artikelnr.: 62320482

Autorenporträt

Born in 1945 in Algeria, Kadour Naïmi pursued studies in theater direction at the École Supérieure d'Art Dramatique du Théâtre National de Strasbourg (1966-1968), then received a sociology degree at the University of Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium, 1979). He worked in various countries as a playwright-stage director and a scriptwriter-filmmaker. He is also an author and journalist. He supports the principle of social self-management to eliminate every form of economic exploitation, cultural alienation and political domination, and their replacement with a human community of freedom in solidarity.

David Porter, a professor emeritus at SUNY/Empire State College, taught politics and history, including courses on modern Algeria. David is the author of Eyes to the South: French Anarchists & Algeria, and editor of Vision on Fire: Emma Goldman on the Spanish Revolution and an analyst of the recent "leaderless revolutions" of the Middle East and North Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Foreword, by David Porter
1. A Pamphlet Illuminates the Poverty of Life
2. "It Is Right to Rebel"
3. Seeds
4. There's Warmth in the Air
5. The Beautiful Spring Arrived!
6. Speaking for Action
7. To Be the Best Activists, We Had to Study, Study More, Study Always
8. "Serve the People" and Serve Oneself
9. Spokesperson for the "Third World"
10. Where the "Lumpenproletarian Scum" Begin "Storming Heaven"
11. A Powerful River of Freedom and Solidarity
12. To Build the Movement, We Had to Explain, Explain, Explain
13. "CRS = SS"
14. Of the "Spectacle"
15. Abolition of Borders
16. "Enjoy without Restraint"
17. "Imagination to Power"
18. The State Backed into a Corner and "Hyenas" on the Watch
19. Apotheosis: The Turning Point
20. The Ebb Tide Begins with the Treason of the "Watch Dogs"
21. Harvests: The Spirit of May
Postface