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... and 401–31. 30 Ibid., 134. See also André Breton, “Manifeste du surréalisme (1924),” in Manifestes du surréalisme (Paris: Gallimard, 1966), 11–64; Clara Orban, The Culture of Fragments: Word and Images in Futurism and Surrealism (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997), 87–91; and Christophe Wall-Romana...

... further presents an account of the author’s attempt to shelter and represent this legacy in the form of Kamau at Ninety, a university course in Brathwaite’s honor, offered in the surreal months of January to May 2020. 12 Kamau Brathwaite, Trench Town Rock (Providence, RI: Lost Road, 1994). See Tracy...

... herself as such. 26 Césaire, “1943: Surrealism and Us,” in The Great Camouflage , 38; hereafter cited in the text. Originally published as “1943: Le surréalisme et nous,” Tropiques , nos. 8–9 (October 1943): 14–18. 27 Dylan Evans, An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis...

.... But the bounty hunters get more than they bargained for when they finally come across the culprits—they discover that now the chickens abused by the poultry mogul are fighting back. Rich with feminist metaphor, this surreal short story emphasizes how even the most seemingly innocuous chicks can overcome...

... that is opposed to the emancipation of the spirit, of which the first indispensable condition is the liberation of man.” 25 In his essay, “Situation du surréalisme entre les deux guerres” (“Situation of Surrealism between the Two Wars”), published in VVV in 1943, Breton argues, “D'une guerre à l'autre...

..., théâtre, essais et discours , ed. A. James Arnold (Paris: CNRS and Présence Africaine, 2013), 1617. 13 André Breton, “Second Manifesto of Surrealism” (1930), in Manifestoes of Surrealism , trans. and ed. Richard Seaver and Helen Lane (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1969), 162–63...

... Breton as “l'initiateur de la plus extraordinaire révolution qui soit, puisqu'aussi bien elle engage plus que l'art.” 21 As with Frobenian ethnology, surrealism appealed to Césaire for its applicability beyond its immediate context, and this expansiveness emerges fully in “1943: Le surréalisme et...

..., it is worth considering the fi nal pages of Walter Benjamin’s “Surrealism: Th e Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia” in order to help us account for Carter’s revo- lutionary temper, his tendency toward silence, and his political disappointments during the 1960s...

... against the usurpation of the marvelous via a decadent European surrealism. In Haiti, young people hoped for more democracy and for participation of the people. Th is hope died fast. Th e Centre d’Art and many artists who painted in the tradition of the so-called naïve...

... been pretty stellar and the absurd. Whatever the Jacmel Carni- in global terms. For me it is a case of How val lacks in sequins and sparkle, it makes up Haiti reveals its History. I have visited some for in homegrown surrealism. This is people Caribbean islands where it feels...

... of the emergence of the historical avant-garde movements in 1920s and 1930s Europe (futurism, Dadaism, surrealism, and so on). 4 Obviously, I can in no way, in the space to hand, do justice to the complex critical-historical argument at play in Bürger’s book. I intend only to flag certain dimensions...

... with several members of his administration.25 In his account, Depestre wrote of Breton s contagious lyricism : The scandalous and subversive atmosphere that had characterized surrealism in the heroic period of its Parisian era was created at the Rex. From the moment André Breton began to speak, we knew...

.... 1 Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism , trans. Joan Pinkham (1955; repr., New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000), 42. 2 Aimé Césaire, “Presentation,” in Michael Richardson and Krzysztof Fijalkowski, eds. and trans., Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism in the Caribbean (New York: Verso...

... of Gisèle Pineau’s Th e Drifting of Spiritss (1999). He is currently at work on a manuscript entitled “Surrealism in the Francophone Caribbean.” Maxence Denis is a Haitian director and video artist whose work plays on the contrasts between the moving images of video...

... to define that legacy, which then leads to a desire to reclaim that legacy from some other constituency (in this case, surrealism and Marxism) that might lead us to misconstrue the meaning of the work. There is nothing improper or sinister in this kind of reclamation project. On the contrary, I would...

... in the digraphia of a dream rebus at the core of Freud's work. Clifford's own body of work on surrealism and on the anthropologist's subjectivity are reminders of Freud's radical expansion of what is legible. Clifford remembers Freud because the latter's expansion of the archive has left its mark on cultural...

... as a stage for a French theater company to perform a play by Jean Jacques Rousseau. Th is magical representation of the collision of history and fantasy, real and surreal, may provide a useful way to analyze recent events in Haiti. Th e bicentenary of the Haitian Revolution has provided an occasion...

.... Sartre argues that Negritude is an essentially poetic movement, an offshoot and continuation of surrealism that offers a means of rehabilitating black subjectivity through an exploration of the tortured psyche of the colonial subject. Sartre writes that historical experience provides the basis for Pan...

... and lengthy a debate to enter into here. 3. René Ménil, “Concerning Colonial Exoticism,” in Michael Richardson (ed.) Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Caribbean (1959; reprint, London: Verso, 1996), 181. 168 | SX25 • The Picturesque, Miss Nottage and the Caribbean Sublime...

... and retrieval project on Sylvia Wynter’s great unpublished manuscript, “Black Metamorphosis.” 5 3 Aimé Césaire, “Calling the Magician: A Few Words for a Caribbean Civilization” (1944), in Michael Richardson, ed., Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Caribbean , trans. Krzysztof Fijałkowski...