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Poetics of the Antilles : poetry, history and philosophy in the writings of Perse, Césaire, Fanon and Glissant

Title: Poetics of the Antilles : poetry, history and philosophy in the writings of Perse, Césaire, Fanon and Glissant / Jean Khalfa.
Author: Khalfa, Jean
Publication: Oxford : Peter Lang, [2017]

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Description

xi, 362 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

The essays collected in this volume study the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant. In a context where identity was a question, an original conception of subjectivity appeared, as the end point rather than the origin of a process which was inseparably poetic and political. It entailed an aesthetics of dispersion or errance, rather than belonging. This volume thus questions the traditional teleological narrative of negritude as {u2018}renaissance{u2019} or {u2018}awakening{u2019}. A careful look at the birth of different negritude movements shows the complexity of this history and explains Fanon{u2019}s philosophical and political critique of the notion. These writers{u2019} astonishingly rich production rests on original aesthetic ideas and philosophical reflections which the vagaries of history and displacement, and their comparison with major metropolitan literary movements, had masked. Fanon{u2019}s thought is at the heart of the book, but this volume also traces the important debates these authors had with the major French thinkers of their time, notably Bergson, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze. --

Series Statement

Modern French identities, 1422-9005 ; volume 124

Uniform Title

Modern French identities ; volume 124.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

Collection of texts published previously.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Acknowledgements -- Note on translations and references -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction : poetry, history, philosophy of the antilles -- Poetry and subjectivity -- The plane and the discrete : virtual communities in French Caribbean poetry : from Mallarmé and Perse to Césaire and Glissant -- Pustules, spirals, volcanoes : images and moods in Césaire's cahier d'un retour au pays natal -- Ontology and subjectivity : on Césaire's late poetry appendices -- A commentary on Négritude in cahier d'un retour au pays natal -- Deux néologismes de Césaire -- Obituary : Aimé Césaire (1913-2008) -- History : negritude, alienation and freedom -- The heart of the black race : Parisian negritudes in the 1920s -- Corps perdu : a note on Fanon's cogito -- Alienation and freedom : Fanon on psychiatry and revolution -- L'Afrique de Fanon -- Philosophy : chance, event and consciousness -- The idea of an impersonal consciousness : deleuze and sartre -- Poétique de l'identité vécue comme hasard (Perse, Michaux, Deleuze, Glissant) -- Bibliography.

ISBN

9783034308953
3034308957
9781787072589 (online) (canceled/invalid)
9781787072596 (online) (canceled/invalid)
9781787072602 (online) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2016959082
9783034308953
99970586895

OCLC

ocn968722582
968722582
SCSB-8410591

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library