Engagements With Aime Cesaire - Thinking With Spirits

In this inventive and thoughtful study, renowned poet Jason Allen-Paisant provides a timely critical reappraisal of Aimé Césaire's works. The book showcases Césaire as a major Black thinker, whose writings remain deeply relevant to today's crises and debates.

List of contents

• Introduction: Thinking with Spirits: An Unlearning


• 1: (Un)thinking Philosophy


• 2: Possession as Paradigm of Consciousness


• 3: Sound and Otherliness


• 4: Animist Time and the White Anthropocene


• Coda: Reawakening an Animist Politics of the Self


• Works Cited


• Index

About the author

Jason Allen-Paisant is a Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing in the Department of English, American Studies, and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. An alumnus of the University of the West Indies (Mona), the University of Oxford, and the École normale supérieure (Ulm), he is the author of Théâtre dialectique postcolonial (2017) and of two books of poetry: Thinking with Trees (winner of the Poetry category of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Poetry Prize) and Self-Portrait as Othello (winner of the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize and the 2023 Forward Prize for Best Collection).

Summary

In this inventive and thoughtful study, renowned poet Jason Allen-Paisant provides a timely critical reappraisal of Aimé Césaire's works. The book showcases Césaire as a major Black thinker, whose writings remain deeply relevant to today's crises and debates.

Additional text

Beautifully written and propelled by a fascinating new approach and its direct intervention to Aimé Césaire's scholarship, Thinking with Spirits will cement Jason Allen-Paisant's reputation as a rigorous critical thinker.

Product details

• Authors: Jason Allen-Paisant, Jason (Senior Lecturer in Critical Allen-Paisant
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.02.2024
• EAN: 9780192867223
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286722-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; French, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Politics and government, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary theory, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: postcolonial literature