This essay examines the centrality of Aimé Césaire's work in the emergence of a black poetic and intellectual discourse in French, and his influence, in terms both of theme and idiom, on generations of Francophone writers, an influence that can be discerned in the work of Tchikaya u Tamsi, Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard, Lamine Sall and Sylvie Kandé in Africa, and Frantz Fanon, Edouard Glissant, René Depestre, and Daniel Maximin in the French Caribbean region. The relationship of Césaire's work to the Créolité movement is discussed, as is the impact of his work on Anglophone Caribbean writers, such as Kamau Brathwaite of Barbados and Lansana Sekou of St Martin, as evidence of the enduring legacy of his work.
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The Poetic Legacy of Aimé Césaire
Francis Abiola Irele
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2009
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 81–97 (17 total)
Between Resistance and the State
Caribbean Activism and the Invention of a National Memory of Slavery in France
Itay Lotem
, who sought to challenge the political status quo. Despite references to Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism , Edouard Glissant’s growing body of work, or the history of 350 years of colonial oppression, these activists did not prioritize the
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 126–148 (23 total)
“White” Guadeloupeans of “Mixed” Ancestry
Complicating Analyses of Whiteness and White Supremacy
Ary Gordien
community, he agrees with Édouard Glissant's notion of creolization. Like many Guadeloupean politicians, entrepreneurs, and artists I interacted with, Isidore must certainly see in Glissant an opportunity to redefine cultural syncretism, biogenetic mixing
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 95–115 (21 total)