The year 2018 marked the fiftieth anniversary of May '68, a startling, by now almost mythic event which combined seriousness, courage, humor and theatrics. The contributions of this volume-based on papers presented the conference Does "la lutte continue"? The Global Afterlife of May '68 at Florida State University in March 2019-explore the ramifications of that springtime protest in the contemporary world. What has widely become known as the movement of '68 consisted, in fact, of many synchronous movements in different nations that promoted a great variety of political, social, and cultural agendas. While it is impossible to write a global history of '68, this volume presents a kaleidoscope of different perceptions, reflections, and receptions of protest in France, Italy, and other nations that share in common a global utopian imaginary as expressed, for example, in the slogan: "All power to the imagination!" The contributions of this collection show that, while all social struggles are political, many lasting changes in individual mentalities and social structures originated from utopian ideas that were realized first in artistic productions and their aesthetic reception. In this respect the various protests of May '68 continue.

Dans le monde francophone, Mai 68 continue a etre envisage comme un evenement s'inscrivant dans une temporalite et une spatialite bien delimitees: Paris, France, notamment les 5e et 6e arrondissements du 22 mars au 30 juin 1968, du debut des manifestations a Nanterre avec l'emergence de Daniel Cohn-Bendit, leader du mouvement, jusqu'au second tour des elections legislatives qui enterine la victoire de la droite. Peu de recherches ont ete effectuees jusqu'a ce jour sur les repercussions de cet evenement dans la sphere francophone. Ce livre explore cet evenement et ses vies ulterieures entre Paris, Montreal et l'Acadie.