Aime Cesaire

Klappentext A study of Antiguan writer Aime Cesaire! which links his political career to recurrent themes in his writing. Zusammenfassung Aimé Césaire is arguably the best-known poet in the French Caribbean. Gregson Davis examines Césaire's extraordinary dual career as writer and elected politician. Césaire, the acknowledged inventor of the famous term 'negritude', has been a hugely influential figure in shaping the contemporary discourse on the postcolonial predicament. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; 1. From island to metropolis: the making of a poet; 2. Exploring racial selves: 'Journal of a homecoming'; 3. Inventing a lyric voice: the forging of 'Miracle Weapons'; 4. Lyric registers: from 'Sun Cut Throat' to 'Cadaster'; 5. The turn to poetic drama; 6. The return to lyric: 'me, laminaria ...'; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Gregson Davis, Gregson (Duke University Davis
• Assisted by: Abiola Irele (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.10.1997
• EAN: 9780521390729
• ISBN: 978-0-521-39072-9
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Cambridge Studies in African &
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies