Freedom Time
Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World
1st Edition
Published on 14. February 2015
400 pages
978-0-8223-7579-1 (ISBN)
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Providing a reading of Aime Césaire and Leopold Senghor as political thinkers, Gary Wilder explains how these eminent anti-colonial thinkers, poets and political leaders sought to remake France by advocating for colonial self-determination and fuller racial and cultural integration within the French empire.
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Gary Wilder is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars.
Content
Index 373
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
1. Unthinking France, Rethinking Decolonization 1
2. Situating Césaire: Antillean Awakening and Global Redemption 17
3. Situating Senghor: African Hospitality and Human Solidarity 49
4. Freedom, Time, Territory 74
5. Departmentalization and the Spirit of Schoelcher 106
6. Federalism and the Future of France 133
7. Antillean Autonomy and the Legacy of Louverture 167
8. African Socialism and the Fate of the World 206
9. Decolonization and Postnational Democracy 241
Chronology 261
Notes 275
Works Cited 333
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
1. Unthinking France, Rethinking Decolonization 1
2. Situating Césaire: Antillean Awakening and Global Redemption 17
3. Situating Senghor: African Hospitality and Human Solidarity 49
4. Freedom, Time, Territory 74
5. Departmentalization and the Spirit of Schoelcher 106
6. Federalism and the Future of France 133
7. Antillean Autonomy and the Legacy of Louverture 167
8. African Socialism and the Fate of the World 206
9. Decolonization and Postnational Democracy 241
Chronology 261
Notes 275
Works Cited 333
