Bookforum Presents Backlash: The Legacy of 1968, a Brooklyn Book Festival Event
Where: Books Are Magic
225 Smith St.
718-246-2665 Price: Free
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Books Are Magic is teaming up with Bookforum for this Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event! Join panelists Andrea Long Chu, Elizabeth Schambelan, and Charlotte Shane, moderated by Bookforum editor Michael Miller, as they discuss the political reverberations of 1968.
A year of radical hope, groundbreaking art and literature, and passionate activism, 1968 left a longstanding legacy of reactionary movements and counterrevolutions, galvanized by political uprisings of the time. Based on articles in the “1968 Now” Bookforum issue about Yukio Mishima’s ideological impact on today’s white nationalists, Kristin Ross’s book May ’68 and its Afterlives, Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckinridge, and the generative conflicts of second-wave feminism, this panel will explore how the books of the time heralded a backlash that continues to shape our culture and politics today.
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