Time on the Brink of Impasse

Brittany Murray is Assistant Professor of French in the Department of World Languages and Cultures and the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the coeditor of Migration, Displacement, and Higher Education, Now What? She has also coedited special issues of South Atlantic Quarterly, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, and EuropeNow.

"Time on the Brink of Impasse shows what we can learn, fifty years on, about how to restore to humanity a sense of historicity, an apprehension that the past inflects the present but does not necessarily determine the future."---Jennifer Willging, Ohio State University "Brittany Murray's wonderful analyses reveal the complex mediations between the novels and films of 1970s France and the great social upheavals of that era. Her eyes are also constantly on the present, demonstrating convincingly that these aesthetic and political interventions from the 1970s help us make sense of our world."---Michael Hardt, author of The Subversive Seventies "Murray provides a rich alternative account of the aesthetic, political, and economic dimensions of postmodernity. Her revisionist narrative demands that we attend to the powerful political work of artists and collectives that exists underneath or against dominant ideological formations of the era."---Christopher Breu, Illinois State University