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...Manthia Diawara Copyright © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 TROPIQUES and the Surrealist Movement in Martinique Manthia Diawara T ropiques (1941 45), a cultural journal edited by Suzanne Césaire, René Ménil, and Aimé Césaire, takes its place between Légitime Défense (1932) and Présence...

... Balat a road ascends through Martinique's "Bureau of Migra tio n of the Overseas Depart• primal for est un til Morne-Roug e and men ts," known by its Frenc h acronym as the high• Tbeyond, toward th e plateaus of Ajo upa• ly efficient Bumidom, whic h ope rated until the Bouillon...

... n his death (April 17, 2008) at the age died , Cesaire felt co mpelled to em br ace not only of ninety-four in hi s na ti ve land, his ancestral "land" of Africa, but also the wider O Martinique, Airne Cesaire was especially lands of th e African diaspor a and indeed the rem...

... or absent, such as his works presented in Dakar’s eleventh biennale (2014) and Martinique’s first biennale (2013). Copyright © 2016 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2016 performance art disembody Goddess Constellations Caribbean art sign and symbol FROM BODY TO DISEMBODIMENT...

... Marx’s dialectical materialism without questioning why Marx’s scientific explanation of universal history failed to account for the absence of a Black proletariat in Martinique. The author’s comparison between Breton and the Martiniquan texts concludes that the most evident difference between them...

.... Diawara’s eventual film chronicles the author’s travels with Glissant on the Queen Mary II across the Atlantic from South Hampton, United Kingdom, to Brooklyn, New York, as well as his stay with Glissant in the philosopher’s native Martinique in the Caribbean. Diawara recounts the experience while...

...Elizabeth Colomba Being of Martinique descent but born and raised in France has shaped and influenced my perception of my self-identity. This dual background has pushed me to explore the totality of social experience and fuse my two worlds in my work. While acknowledging the past, I wish to reshape...

... and innocence of Republic), Kcho (Cuba), and Marc (1996-2003) grapples with reconciling works by self-taught artist Bill Traylor, Latamie (Martinique/USA). Scott stat• these diverse influences. A historical while others play with forms derived...

..., as participants in this African diaspora, regularly when I have to go to Martinique or New York. to help the world to realize its true self, in other words its multiplicity, and to respect itself as such. Manthia Diawara: This boat is also the Atlantic crossing...

... on the black man (a barrier to the bulimia of the gaze)— Carnival in New-World Creole societies—from this freedom world tour, cool was greater than anniversary day of the students ’ killings following a rhetorical figure and conceptual tool in keeping New Orleans to Martinique, Brazil to Trinidad...

... or ists — AfriCOBRA2 in the United States and, in the movement. This apt term connotes “across” (pan-­ Caribbean, Groupe Fwomaje of Martinique, Kou- African aesthetics), “beyond” (the multicontinen- kara of neighboring Guadeloupe, and B’CAUSE in tal scope), and “thoroughly changing” (individual...

..., New Orleans, graphic dérive[s Ebony G. Patterson’s “petite mort,” Mercer references Georges Martinique, and Trinidad and Tobago. blinged-out funeral parade, and Marlon Bataille, Essential Writings, ed. Michael Yet the authors deftly argue how rel- Griffith’s somber counter-Carnival than Richardson...

..., blanc].13 Meanwhile, in Martinique, subsequent would belong particularly to the strain of this generations of writers were to struggle against intersection in which primitivism is appropriated both the crushing influence of Cesaire's poetry from a putative position...

.... I hold Aime Cesaire's oeuvre as vital, though; particularly, in that HUO: You arrived in Paris only a couple of years after two other famous he was the first in the West Indian culture to insist that black people, immigrants arrived, one from Martinique who was Aime Cesaire...

... of how this Pan-Africanist network informs his art. Damas was born in French Guiana, but due to the French colonial education system, he went to school in Martinique and Paris. While a student in Paris in the 1930s, he, Aimé Césaire, and Léopold Sédar Senghor cofounded and developed the Negritude...

... a basic psychiatric service lectuals in Martinique, France and Tunisia respectively. would provide in such countries and/or fails to deal with the individ• We found no previous films about Fanon, apart for a short ual psychic cost of post-colonialism and underdevelopment which...

.... In 2014, he adopted the surname Destourelles, taken from a Creole Nolasco Nka 85 New Words for Mindelo s Urban Creole, 2014. Video still, digital HD file, 16:9, 10:26, b&w, sound woman from the island of Martinique named Clémence Monnerot Destourelles (1816 1910) who was married to Joseph-Arthur de...

... the black subject, Wiley Césaire from Martinique, Léon Damas from overturned what he called “the history of Western Guiana, and Léopold Senghor of Senegal—pub- European white men in positions of dominance.”3 elished Black Th Student in 1935, an anthology of This critical approach to visualizing...

...Peter Erickson Copyright © 2009 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2009 The Black Atlantic is both a literal and a nections from Martinique in the Caribbean to metaphorical place. As a geographical zone, it is Algeria in North Africa. the body of water...

... it contains, as Édouard Glissant insight- fully advocates: I am this country made of mangrove from the town Lamentin in Martinique where I grew up and at the same time, by an infinite imperceptible presence, it conquers nothing over the Other, this Nile s bank where the reeds move about as the sugar cane...