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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aimé Césaire (Martinique) and Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal) who! beginning in 1945! promoted self-determination without state sovereignty. As politicians! public intellectuals! and poets they struggled to transform imperial France into a democratic federation! with former colonies as autonomous members of a transcontinental polity. In so doing! they revitalized past but unrealized political projects and anticipated impossible futures by acting as if they had already arrived. Refusing to reduce colonial emancipation to national independence! they regarded decolonization as an opportunity to remake the world! reconcile peoples! and realize humanity's potential. Emphasizing the link between politics and aesthetics! Gary Wilder reads Césaire and Senghor as pragmatic utopians! situated humanists! and concrete cosmopolitans whose postwar insights can illuminate current debates about self-management! postnational politics! and planetary solidarity. Freedom Time invites scholars to decolonize intellectual history and globalize critical theory! to analyze the temporal dimensions of political life! and to question the territorialist assumptions of contemporary historiography. Zusammenfassung Providing a reading of Aime Cesaire 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
