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Refusal of the Shadow

Surrealism and the Caribbean
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In 1932, at the peak of French colonialism, a group of Martiniquan students at the Sorbonne established a Caribbean Surrealist Group, and published a single issue of a journal called Légitime défense. Immediately banned by the authorities, it passed almost unnoticed at the time. Yet it began a remarkable series of debates between surrealism and Caribbean intellectuals that had a profound impact on the struggle for cultural identity. In the next two decades these exchanges greatly influenced the evolution of the concept of negritude, initiated revolution in Haiti in 1946, and crucially affected the development of surrealism itself. This fascinating book presents a series of key texts-most of them never before translated into English-which reveal the complexity of this relationship between black anti-colonialist movements in the Caribbean and the most radical of the European avant-gardes. Included are René Ménil's subtle philosophical essays and the fierce polemics of Aimé and Suzanne Césaire, appreciations of surrealism by Haitian writers, lyrical evocations of the Caribbean by André Breton and André Masson, and rich explorations of Haiti and voodoo religion by Pierre Mabille and Michel Leiris.
Release date NZ
May 17th, 1996
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Contributors
  • Contributions by Aime Cesaire
  • Contributions by Andre Breton
  • Contributions by Etienne Lero
  • Contributions by Jules-Marcel Monnerot
  • Contributions by Maurice-Sabas Quitman
  • Contributions by Rene Menil
  • Contributions by Suzanne Cesaire
  • Edited by Michael Richardson
  • Translated by Krzysztof Fijalkowski
  • Translated by Michael Richardson
Pages
302
Dimensions
152x236x25
ISBN-13
9781859840184
Product ID
5836524

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