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Poetics of the Antilles
Poetry, History and Philosophy in the Writings of Perse, Césaire, Fanon and Glissant
ISBN/EAN: 9781803741963
Umbreit-Nr.: 1401339
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 376 S.
Format in cm: 2.1 x 22.5 x 15
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 27.04.2023
Auflage: 1/2023
- Zusatztext
- 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 renaissance or awakening. A careful look at the birth of different negritude movements shows the complexity of this history and explains Fanons 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. Fanons 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.
- Kurztext
- «Poetics of the Antilles» explores the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Perse, Césaire, Fanon and Glissant. The book portrays the complex history of the negritude movements in light of Fanons critique and reveals the original aesthetic ideas and philosophical reflections on which these authors rich production rests.
- Autorenportrait
- Jean Khalfa is a Fellow and Senior Lecturer in French Studies at Trinity College Cambridge. He specialises in the history of philosophy, modern literature (in particular contemporary poetry and writing in French from North Africa and the Caribbean), aesthetics and anthropology. His research on Fanon contained in this book was facilitated by the award of a Senior Research Fellowship from the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust.