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Poetics of the Antilles: Poetry, History and Philosophy in the Writings of Perse, Césaire, Fanon and Glissant
Contributor(s): Collier, Peter (Other), Khalfa, Jean (Author)
ISBN: 3034308957     ISBN-13: 9783034308953
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
OUR PRICE:   $91.92  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American
- Literary Criticism | European - French
Series: Modern French Identities
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (1.14 lbs) 374 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America
- Cultural Region - French
 
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Publisher Description:
The essays collected in this volume study the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Saint-John Perse, Aim C saire, Frantz Fanon and douard 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 'renaissance' or 'awakening'. A careful look at the birth of different negritude movements shows the complexity of this history and explains Fanon's philosophical and political critique of the notion. These writers' 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'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.