Jane Hiddleston

Aimé Césaire (eBook, ePUB)

Inventor of Souls

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781509549795
• Artikelnr.: 73163675

Autorenporträt

Jane Hiddleston is Professor of Literatures in French at the University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One
1930s Paris and the Cahier d'un retour au pays natal: 'It is beautiful and
good and legitimate to be nègre'
Chapter Two
Wartime Martinique, Tropiques, and Les Armes miraculeuses: 'Open the
windows. Air. Air'
Chapter Three
Departmentalisation, Soleil cou coupé and Corps perdu: 'I Shall Command the
Islands to Exist'
Chapter Four
The Political Upheavals of the 1950s: 'History I tell of the awakening of
Africa'
Chapter Five
The Theatre of Decolonisation: 'One does not invent a tree, one plants it'
Chapter Six
Political and Poetic Disillusionment: 'I inhabit a Sacred Wound'
Afterword