Abstract:

The Frenchness of the Commune understandably has often structured the way that the Parisian uprising is studied and archived. And yet, as Kristin Ross's work has powerfully shown, the Commune always exceeded national boundaries. This article reconsiders the Commune's extra-national reach by turning to the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century US, where it re-emerges not as a failed foreign past but rather as an unexpectedly rich site of unfinished possibility for US radicals. Examining in particular the ways that the figure of Louise Michel crucially animates the politics and public persona of American women radicals such as Emma Goldman, I show what gets lost when the Commune gets abridged from accounts of Goldman's life and activism. I conclude by turning to the Commune's electrifying resurgence during the 1929 Gastonia Strike to rethink the post-1917 institutionalization of the Commune in the US and the backlash it continued to provoke into the 1930s.

摘要：

可以理解，公社的法国性通常构成了研究和记录巴黎起义的方式。然而，正如克里斯汀·罗斯（Kristin Ross）的著作有力地证明，公社始终超越了国界。本文通过转向19世纪末和20世纪初的美国，重新考虑了公社在国际上的影响力，在该国，它不是作为失败的外国历史而重新出现，而是作为美国激进分子未完成的可能性的出乎意料的丰富站点。我特别研究了路易丝·米歇尔（Louise Michel）的人物批判性地动画化了艾玛·戈德曼（Emma Goldman）等美国女性激进分子的政治和公众形象的方式，我展示了当公社被从高盛的生活和行动主义的描述中删减时所失去的东西。最后，我转向公社并在1930年代继续激起了强烈反响。