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Freedom time : Negritude, decolonization, and the future of the world / Gary Wilder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilder, Gary.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Césaire, Aimé.
- Senghor, Léopold Sédar, 1906-2001.
- Senghor, Léopold Sédar.
- Negritude (Literary movement).
- France--Colonies--Africa--20th century.
- France.
- France--Colonies--America--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (401 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>Providing a reading of Aime Césaire 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.</div>
- Contents:
- Unthinking France, rethinking decolonization
- Situating Césaire: Antillean awakening and global redemption
- Situating Senghor: African hospitality and human solidarity
- Freedom, time, territory
- Departmentalization and the spirit of Schoelcher
- Federalism and the future of France
- Antillean autonomy and the legacy of Louverture
- African socialism and the fate of the world
- Decolonization and postnational democracy.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822358503
- 0822358506
- 9780822375791
- 0822375796
- OCLC:
- 1140000746
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