Aimé Césaire

Inventor of Souls

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvJane Hiddleston

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Aimé Césaire is arguably the greatest Caribbean literary writer in history. Best known for his incendiary epic poem Notebook of a Return to My Native Land, Césaire reinvented black culture by conceiving 'négritude' as a dynamic and continuous process of self-creation.In this essential new account of his life and work, Jane Hiddleston introduces readers to Césaire's unique poetic voice and to his role as a figurehead for intellectuals pursuing freedom and equality for black people. Césaire was deeply immersed in the political life of his native Martinique for over fifty years: as Mayor of Fort-de-France and Deputy at the French National Assembly, he called for the liberation of oppressed people at home and abroad, while celebrating black creativity and self-invention to resist a history of racism.Césaire's extraordinary life reminds us that the much-needed revolt against oppression and subjugation can—and should—come from within the establishment, as well as without.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-01-31
Mått140 x 208 x 25 mm
Vikt386 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBlack Lives
Antal sidor304
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9781509549788

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IntroductionChapter One1930s Paris and the Cahier d’un retour au pays natal: ‘It is beautiful and good and legitimate to be nègre’Chapter TwoWartime Martinique, Tropiques, and Les Armes miraculeuses: ‘Open the windows. Air. Air’Chapter ThreeDepartmentalisation, Soleil cou coupé and Corps perdu: ‘I Shall Command the Islands to Exist’Chapter FourThe Political Upheavals of the 1950s: ‘History I tell of the awakening of Africa’Chapter FiveThe Theatre of Decolonisation: ‘One does not invent a tree, one plants it’Chapter SixPolitical and Poetic Disillusionment: ‘I inhabit a Sacred Wound’Afterword

“This groundbreaking volume is an erudite illumination of Césaire: from Negritude to his call for the reinvention of black culture and identity; from the eruptive challenge of his poetry as revolt to his engagement with political activism.”Adlai Murdoch, Penn State University“Jane Hiddleston succeeds in rendering a difficult writer eminently readable, and she moves effortlessly between her author’s better known political positions and his commitment to poetry, the theatre and the essay.”A. James Arnold, University of Virginia

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