Caribbean Critique: Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant (Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures LUP)
Nick Nesbitt
Caribbean Critique seeks to define and analyze the distinctive contribution of francophone Caribbean thinkers to perimetric Critical Theory. The book argues that their singular project has been to forge a brand of critique that, while borrowing from North Atlantic predecessors such as Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Sartre, was from the start indelibly marked by the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonialism. Chapters and sections address figures such as Toussaint Louverture, Baron de Vastey, Victor Schoelcher, Aimé Césaire, René Ménil, Frantz Fanon, Maryse Condé, and Edouard Glissant, while an extensive theoretical introduction defines the essential parameters of 'Caribbean Critique.'
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Anno:
2013
Edizione:
1
Casa editrice:
Liverpool University Press
Lingua:
english
Pagine:
346
ISBN 10:
1846318661
ISBN 13:
9781846318665
File:
PDF, 3.14 MB
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english, 2013