Fast Cars, Clean Bodies : Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture

從Dien Bien Phu到20世紀60年代中期的關鍵十年，當時法國從一個農業，孤立和帝國導向的社會迅速轉變為非殖民化、美國化和完全工業化的社會。在對令人吃驚的文化轉型分析中，Kristin Ross發現了各種商品和文物 - 汽車、洗衣機、女性雜誌、電影、流行小說，甚至結構主義 - 以及形成中所包含當時期的矛盾。

在本書的四個章節的每一章中，神話形象的中心對像在一系列話語和物質空間中被折射：社會和私人，文本和電影，國家和國際。汽車，首都和殖民地對清潔的新崇拜，Sartre和Beauvoir作為國家關注之一，以及重塑的，功能主義的男性氣質（革命，企業和結構）的出現成為關鍵因素。這是法國後現代主義的史前史。Ross認為，現代化意識形態提供了無限的，甚至是永恆發展的承諾。通過將“歷史終結”意識形態的興起置於法國向大眾文化和消費過渡的背景下，Ross將現代化的吹捧永恆經歷歸功於歷史。

她展示了當時的現實主義小說和電影，以及當時開始概念化“日常生活”的社會理論家如Barthes，Lefebvre和Morin的作品，揭示了事件的破壞和社會代價。 她認為，今天法國流行的種族主義邏輯主要集中在移民工人的身份上，這本身就是法國在20世紀50年代和60年代擁抱資本主義現代化意識形態的結果。

This work examines the crucial decade from Dien Bien Phu to the mid-1960s when France shifted rapidly from an agrarian, insular, and empire-oriented society to a decolonized, Americanized, and fully industrial one. In this analysis of a startling cultural transformation, Kristin Ross finds the contradictions of the period embedded in its various commodities and cultural artifacts - automobiles, washing machines, women's magazines, film, popular fiction, even structuralism - as well as in the practices that shape, determine, and delimit their uses. In each of the book's four chapters, a central object of mythical image is refracted across a range of discursive and material spaces: social and private, textual and cinematic, national and international.

The automobile, the new cult of cleanliness in the capital and the colonies, the waning of Sartre and de Beauvoir as the couple of national attention, and the emergence of reshaped, functionalist masculinities (revolutionary, corporate, and structural) become the key elements in this prehistory of postmodernism in France. Modernization ideology, Ross argues, offered the promise of limitless, even timeless, development. By situating the rise of "end of history" ideologies within the context of France's transition into mass culture and consumption, Ross returns the touted timelessness of modernization to history.

She shows how the realist fiction and film of the period, as well as the work of social theorists such as Barthes, Lefebvre, and Morin who began at the time to conceptualize "everyday life," laid bare the disruptions and the social costs of events. And she argues that the logic of the racism prevalent in France today, focused on the figure of the immigrant worker, is itself the outcome of the French state's embrace of capitalist modernization ideology in the 1950s and 1960s.

   Kristin Ross (Autor)

Publisher:Mit Pr 

ISBN:    978-0262181617 

原價   US 33 台幣價 NT$990