
Poetics of the Antilles
Poetry, History and Philosophy in the Writings of Perse, Césaire, Fanon and Glissant
Jean Khalfa(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 26. December 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
374 pages
978-3-0343-0895-3 (ISBN)
Description
The essays collected in this volume study the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant. In a context where identity was a question, an original conception of subjectivity appeared, as the end point rather than the origin of a process which was inseparably poetic and political. It entailed an aesthetics of dispersion or errance, rather than belonging. This volume thus questions the traditional teleological narrative of negritude as 'renaissance' or 'awakening'. A careful look at the birth of different negritude movements shows the complexity of this history and explains Fanon's philosophical and political critique of the notion. These writers' astonishingly rich production rests on original aesthetic ideas and philosophical reflections which the vagaries of history and displacement, and their comparison with major metropolitan literary movements, had masked. Fanon's thought is at the heart of the book, but this volume also traces the important debates these authors had with the major French thinkers of their time, notably Bergson, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze.
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<<This is a rich and compelling volume that makes an important contribution to francophone postcolonial studies.>> (Nick Nesbitt, French Studies, 2019)More details
Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-0343-0895-3 (9783034308953)
DOI
10.3726/b10888
Schweitzer Classification
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Jean Khalfa
Poetics of the Antilles
Poetry, History and Philosophy in the Writings of Perse, Césaire, Fanon and Glissant
E-Book
02/2017
Peter Lang Verlag
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Jean Khalfa
Poetics of the Antilles
Poetry, History and Philosophy in the Writings of Perse, Césaire, Fanon and Glissant
E-Book
02/2017
Peter Lang Verlag
€73.99
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Person
Jean Khalfa is a Fellow and Senior Lecturer in French Studies at Trinity College Cambridge. He specialises in the history of philosophy, modern literature (in particular contemporary poetry and writing in French from North Africa and the Caribbean), aesthetics and anthropology. His research on Fanon contained in this book was facilitated by the award of a Senior Research Fellowship from the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust.
Content
CONTENTS: Introduction: Poetry, History, Philosophy of the Antilles - Part I: Poetry and Subjectivity - The Plane and the Discrete: Virtual Communities in French Caribbean Poetry. From Mallarme and Perse to Cesaire and Glissant - Pustules, Spirals, Volcanoes: Images and Moods in Cesaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal - Ontology and Subjectivity: On Cesaire's Late Poetry - Appendices: A: A Commentary on Negritude in Cahier d'un retour au pays natal/B: Deux neologismes de Cesaire/C: Obituary: Aime Cesaire (1913-2008) - Part II: History: Negritude, Alienation and Freedom - The Heart of the Black Race: Parisian Negritudes in the 1920s - Corps Perdu: A Note on Fanon's Cogito - Alienation and Freedom: Fanon on Psychiatry and Revolution - L'Afrique de Fanon - Part III: Philosophy: Chance, Event and Consciousness - The Idea of an Impersonal Consciousness: Deleuze and Sartre - Poetique de l'identite vecue comme hasard (Perse, Michaux, Deleuze, Glissant)