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Poetics of the Antilles : Poetry, History and Philosophy in the Writings of Perse, Césaire, Fanon and Glissant / Jean Khalfa.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Khalfa, Jean, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Glissant, Édouard,.
- Fanon, Frantz,.
- Cesaire, Aimé,.
- Perse, Saint-John,.
- Poetry.
- West Indies and Caribbean.
- Local Subjects:
- Glissant, Édouard,.
- Fanon, Frantz,.
- Cesaire, Aimé,.
- Perse, Saint-John,.
- West Indies and Caribbean.
- Genre:
- Book
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (378 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lausanne, Switzerland : Peter Lang Group AG, [2023]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- «Poetics of the Antilles» explores the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Perse, Césaire, Fanon and Glissant. The book portrays the complex history of the negritude movements in light of Fanon's critique and reveals the original aesthetic ideas and philosophical reflections on which these authors' rich production rests.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Translations and References
- Aimé Césaire
- Frantz Fanon
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Poetry, History, Philosophy of the Antilles
- Part I: Poetry and Subjectivity
- Chapter 1: The Plane and the Discrete: Virtual Communities in French Caribbean Poetry. From Mallarmé and Perse to Césaire and Glissant
- Prose du tout-monde and fragmentation of history
- I Perse: Heteroclite, heraclitean and erotic
- II Mallarmé: Chalice/Calyx
- III Césaire: Verrition, Ptyx, Armadillo …
- IV Black salt
- Chapter 2: Pustules, Spirals, Volcanoes: Images and Moods in Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal
- Chapter 3: Ontology and Subjectivity: On Césaire's Late Poetry
- Appendices
- A A Commentary on Négritude in Cahier d'un retour au pays natal
- Paris nègre
- Composition of the Cahier
- Négritude and the prophetic stance
- B Deux néologismes de Césaire
- C Obituary: Aimé Césaire (1913-2008)
- Part II: History: Negritude, Alienation and Freedom
- Chapter 4: The Heart of the Black Race: Parisian Negritudes in the 1920s
- Populations
- Political transformations and individual destinies
- The word 'nègre'
- Chapter 5: Corps Perdu: A Note on Fanon's Cogito
- Chapter 6: Alienation and Freedom: Fanon on Psychiatry and Revolution
- Importance of the doctorate of 1951 on 'mental alterations'
- Organogenesis and psychogenesis
- Value and limits of neuropsychiatric treatments
- Socialtherapy and culture: The experience of Blida
- Beyond the institution
- Chapter 7: L'Afrique de Fanon
- Part III: Philosophy: Chance, Event and Consciousness
- Chapter 8: The Idea of an Impersonal Consciousness: Deleuze and Sartre
- Thought as event
- An impersonal consciousness
- A short history of immanence
- The plane of immanence as a field of impersonal consciousness.
- An expressive but non-representational subjectivity
- The unconscious: Desiring machine and not theatre of representation
- Body without organs and faciality
- Chapter 9: Poétique de l'identité vécue comme hasard (Perse, Michaux, Deleuze, Glissant)
- Dispersion
- Turbulences
- Problème du problème
- Prose du tout-monde
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-80374-198-8
- 1-80374-197-X
- 9781803741987
- 1803741988
- 9781803741963
- 1803741961
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