Discourse on colonialism / Aime Cesaire ; translated by Joan Pinkham. A poetics of anticolonialism / by Robin D.G. Kelley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Césaire, Aimé.

Contributor:

ProQuest (Firm)

Standardized Title:

Discours sur le colonialisme. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonies.

Colonies--Africa.

Postcolonialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (103 pages)

Other Title:

Poetics of anticolonialism

Place of Publication:

New York : Monthly Review Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later, when published for the first time in English,Discourse on Colonialism inspired a new generation engaged in the Civil Rights and Black Power and anti-war movements. Aimé Césaire eloquently describes the brutal impact of capitalism and colonialism on both the colonizer and colonized, exposing the contradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of "progress" and "civilization" upon encountering the "savage," "uncultured," or "primitive." Here, Césaire reaffirms African values, identity, and culture, and their relevance, reminding us that "the relationship between consciousness and reality are extremely complex. . . . It is equally necessary to decolonize our minds, our inner life, at the same time that we decolonize society."

Contents:

A poetics of anticolonialism / Robin D.G. Kelley

Discourse on colonialism / Aimé Césaire

An interview with Aimé Césaire / René Depestre.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-102).

Contains:

Kelley, Robin D. G. Poetics of anticolonialism.

A poetics of anticolonialism

ISBN:

9781583674109

1583674101

9781583674116

158367411X

OCLC:

827209083