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Titel: Refusal of the Shadow
Zustand: New
EAN: 9781859840184
ISBN: 9781859840184
Verlag: Verso Books
Produktart: Taschenbuch
Release date: 17/05/1996
Höhe: 236mm
Länge: 152mm
Breite: 25mm
Gewicht: 414g
Translator: Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Michael Richardson
Contributor: Krzysztof Fijalkowski (Translated by), Michael Richardson (Translated by), Michael Richardson (Edited by), Jules-Marcel Monnerot (Contributions by), Maurice-Sabas Quitman (Contributions by), Clément Magloire-Saint-Aude (Contributions by), Michel Leiris (Contributions by), Etienne Léro (Contributions by), René Ménil (Contributions by), Pierre Mabille (Contributions by), Suzanne Césaire (Contributions by), Aimé Césaire (Contributions by), René Depestre (Contributions by), André Masson (Contributions by), Hendrik Cramer (Contributions by), André Breton (Contributions by), Paul Laraque (Contributions by), Jacques La Colère (Contributions by)
Sprache: Englisch
Subtitle: Surrealism and the Caribbean
ISBN-10: 1859840183
Description: In 1932, at the peak of French colonialism, a group of Martiniquan students at the Sorbonne established a Caribbean Surrealist Group, and published a single issue of a journal called Légitime défense. Immediately banned by the authorities, it passed almost unnoticed at the time. Yet it began a remarkable series of debates between surrealism and Caribbean intellectuals that had a profound impact on the struggle for cultural identity. In the next two decades these exchanges greatly influenced the evolution of the concept of negritude, initiated revolution in Haiti in 1946, and crucially affected the development of surrealism itself.

This fascinating book presents a series of key texts-most of them never before translated into English-which reveal the complexity of this relationship between black anti-colonialist movements in the Caribbean and the most radical of the European avant-gardes. Included are René Ménil's subtle philosophical essays and the fierce polemics of Aimé and Suzanne Césaire, appreciations of surrealism by Haitian writers, lyrical evocations of the Caribbean by André Breton and André Masson, and rich explorations of Haiti and voodoo religion by Pierre Mabille and Michel Leiris.
Herstellungsland und -region: GB
Genre: Literary Criticism
Thematik: Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Arts & Photography, History
Autor: René Ménil

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