... 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...

... In chapter 2, three sketches drawn by the Cuban painter Wifredo Lam usher us into the shape of fugitive time in Aimé Césaire’s négritude epic Notebook of a Return to the Native Land . Produced for the 1943 Cuban translation of Césaire’s original 1939 Notebook , these drawings—which to date...

... Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism is a critical reflection on the European civilization project that gives expression to the disenchantment with European modernity that began to be felt in many places after World War II. The moment coincided with the propagation of decolonization...

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... This chapter traces Césaire’s rejection of departmentalization, his resignation from the French Communist Party, and his founding of the independent Parti progressiste martiniquais in 1958. It explores Césaire’s embrace of Senghor’s vision of cooperative federalism as a new legal status...

... 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...

... This chapter begins by discussing the respective failures of Senghor and Césaire to realize their federalist visions of nonnational decolonization. It discusses the contradiction for each between having a revolutionary vision of postnational democracy yet devoting their lives to political...

... and the state, broadening a narrow anarchism to embrace what Fanon, following Césaire, called “the end of the world.” Frederick Douglass Angela Davis tradition anarchism Aimé Césaire ...

... “Black,” the color of night and nothingness, is a name given by someone else, an insult, a habit, and a way of being, but also a mechanism for objectification and degradation. For Marcus Garvey, Blackness was not lack but the possibility for redemption within the “African empire.” Aimé Césaire’s...

... described, he feels other forces impinge upon his body—violently. Reading Fanon, this chapter argues that these forces should be considered in a poetics of flesh. Engaging Caribbean poet Aimé Césaire, the chapter also points toward the possibility of envisioning carnal relations beyond the limits...

... repositioned on the shoreline, which may or may not open him to new forms of dwelling and resistance. A spatial restaging of Caliban traces a trajectory from the frustrated rebel who winds up on the porous ever-shifting beach in Aimé Césaire’s psychodrama to the “marroneur” Toussaint, who liberates himself...

... encounters Merleau-Ponty described, he feels other forces impinge upon his body—violently. Reading Fanon, this chapter argues that these forces should be considered in a poetics of flesh. Engaging Caribbean poet Aimé Césaire, the chapter also points toward the possibility of envisioning carnal relations...

.... A spatial restaging of Caliban traces a trajectory from the frustrated rebel who winds up on the porous ever-shifting beach in Aimé Césaire’s psychodrama to the “marroneur” Toussaint, who liberates himself by transforming his prison into archipelagic space. While Césaire’s Caliban does not have...

.... identity politics anticolonialism discourse twentieth-century history Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism is a critical reflection on the European civilization project that gives expression to the disenchantment with European modernity that began to be felt in many places after World War II...

... This chapter is an introduction that explains the relation between this book and The French Imperial Nation-State and situates this study relative to recent scholarship on decolonization, postwar France, negritude, Aimé Césaire, Léopold Senghor, French imperial history, the postwar order...