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... After discussing the problem of emancipation in the colonial Antilles, this chapter situates Aimé Césaire in relation to existing scholarship and the wartime political landscape. It focuses on his writings for the journal Tropiques in Martinique during the years of Vichy occupation, when he...

... for Martinique, which he hoped to transform into an autonomous region of a new federal republic. The chapter argues that Césaire’s federalism was mediated by the legacy of Toussaint Louverture’s 1801 constitution for Saint-Domingue. Suggesting that Toussaint addressed a future that had not yet arrived...

... censors in Martinique. The story unfolds in three acts, each exploring a different episode of the Haitian Revolution, from the early slave revolts in the North of the island to Toussaint’s imprisonment and Dessalines’s march to victory. A stunning meditation on Black revolution and liberatory violence...

... censors in Martinique. The story unfolds in three acts, each exploring a different episode of the Haitian Revolution, from the early slave revolts in the North of the island to Toussaint’s imprisonment and Dessalines’s march to victory. A stunning meditation on Black revolution and liberatory violence...

... readers. It then explores the complicated history of the text, explaining why it was unknown until recently, and how it came to be known. The article provides insights into the different stages of composition and revision of the play, and Césaire’s writing conditions in Vichy Martinique. Gil also explores...

... This chapter analyzes Aimé Césaire’s belief that decolonization—substantive colonial emancipation—in Martinique and Guadeloupe could be realized through a law transforming these colonial territories into departments of France. Against scholarship that regards his support for departmentalization...