Boundary 2: The Sixties and the World Event

This special issue ofboundary 2revisits the 1960s through a global and multidisciplinary lens. It treats the decade as a global historical event, comprising decolonization, liberation, revolution, and movements against various establishments. Engaging questions of history and temporality, this issue illustrates that continued exploration and consideration of the 1960s around the world are crucial to a critical engagement with the present. Contributors to this issue represent a wide range of disciplines, from Latin American studies and sociology to political theory and literary criticism. They bring a global perspective to the social and political legacy of the 1960s, touching on the Caribbean, Latin America, the former USSR, China, and France, as well as the United States. One contributor presents a reexamination of Latin American armed struggles in the 1960s that foregrounds the relatively positive influence of these struggles on present-day Latin American society and politics. Another contributor translates a seminal essay on Joseacute; Martiacute; written by one of Cuba's foremost intellectuals in the mid-1960s, when the course of the Cuban revolution was still uncertain. Yet another contributor considers the forces that have sought to neutralize the struggles and negate the gains of the African American liberation movement in the 1960s American South.

March 1968 in Poland Wlad Godzich, University of California, Santa Cruz The Philosophy of Restoration: Alain Badiou and the Enemies of May Nina Power, Department of Philosophy, Roehampton University, U.K. and Alberto Toscano, Goldsmiths College, University of London Rethinking the Armed Struggle in Latin America / John Beverley, University of Pittsburgh Martiacute; in his (Third) World / Roberto Fernaacute;ndez Retamar, Casa de las Americas, Cuba 1960s East and West: The Nature of the Shestidesiatniki and the New Left / Boris Kagarlitsky, Institute of Globalisation and Social Movements, Moscow, Russia Revisiting the Sixties and Re-fusing Trash: Preamble and Interview with Peter Schumann of Bread and Puppet Theater / Silvia D. Spitta, Dartmouth College 1968: Black Power, Decolonization, and Caribbean Politics / Anthony Bogues, Brown University "Long Time": Last Daughters and the New New South / Hortense Spillers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in English,Vanderbilt University The End of the Sixties / Chris Connery, Professor of World Literature and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz