Engagements with Aimé Césaire : thinking with spirits / Jason Allen-Paisant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen-Paisant, Jason, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Césaire, Aimé--Criticism and interpretation.

Césaire, Aimé.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 144 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.

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 Cšaire as a major Black thinker, whose writings remain deeply relevant to today's crises and debates.

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.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 20, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

0-19-195931-6

0-19-269279-8

0-19-269280-1

OCLC:

1405207902