Description
A new and complete English translation
The Great Camouflage translates and assembles in one volume the seven articles Suzanne Césaire wrote for the cultural journal Tropiques. Césaire engages anthropology, esthetics, surrealism, history, and poetry as she grapples with questions of power and deception, self-deception, the economic slipknot of a post-slavery debt system, identity and inauthenticity, bad faith, psychological and affective aberration, and cultural zombification. All are caught in the web of the great camouflage. The collection provides a multifaceted portrait of Césaire, and includes short writings from others who wrote passionately about her, including André Breton, André Masson, René Ménil, Daniel Maximin, and her husband Aimé Césaire and daughter, Ina Césaire.
Author: Suzanne Césaire
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 05/18/2012
Pages: 104
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.59w x 0.48d
ISBN13: 9780819572752
ISBN10: 0819572756
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Literary Criticism | General
The Great Camouflage translates and assembles in one volume the seven articles Suzanne Césaire wrote for the cultural journal Tropiques. Césaire engages anthropology, esthetics, surrealism, history, and poetry as she grapples with questions of power and deception, self-deception, the economic slipknot of a post-slavery debt system, identity and inauthenticity, bad faith, psychological and affective aberration, and cultural zombification. All are caught in the web of the great camouflage. The collection provides a multifaceted portrait of Césaire, and includes short writings from others who wrote passionately about her, including André Breton, André Masson, René Ménil, Daniel Maximin, and her husband Aimé Césaire and daughter, Ina Césaire.
Author: Suzanne Césaire
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 05/18/2012
Pages: 104
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.59w x 0.48d
ISBN13: 9780819572752
ISBN10: 0819572756
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Literary Criticism | General
About the Author
SUZANNE CÉSAIRE (1915 - 1966) was a French author from Martinique who along with her husband, Aimé Césaire, helped found the Négritude movement. DANIEL MAXIMIN is a Guadeloupean novelist, poet, and essayist. His most recent book is Les Fruits du cyclone: Une géopoétique de la Caraïbe. KEITH L. WALKER is a professor of French and Italian at Dartmouth College and author of Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture.