Table of Contents

CONTENTS: Introduction: Poetry, History, Philosophy of the Antilles – Part I: Poetry and Subjectivity – The Plane and the Discrete: Virtual Communities in French Caribbean Poetry. From Mallarmé and Perse to Césaire and Glissant – Pustules, Spirals, Volcanoes: Images and Moods in Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal – Ontology and Subjectivity: On Césaire’s Late Poetry – Appendices: A: A Commentary on Négritude in Cahier d’un retour au pays natal/B: Deux néologismes de Césaire/C: Obituary: Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) – Part II: History: Negritude, Alienation and Freedom – The Heart of the Black Race: Parisian Negritudes in the 1920s – Corps Perdu: A Note on Fanon’s Cogito – Alienation and Freedom: Fanon on Psychiatry and Revolution – L’Afrique de Fanon – Part III: Philosophy: Chance, Event and Consciousness – The Idea of an Impersonal Consciousness: Deleuze and Sartre – Poétique de l’identité vécue comme hasard (Perse, Michaux, Deleuze, Glissant)

About the Author

Jean Khalfa is a Fellow and Senior Lecturer in French Studies at Trinity College Cambridge. He specialises in the history of philosophy, modern literature (in particular contemporary poetry and writing in French from North Africa and the Caribbean), aesthetics and anthropology. His research on Fanon contained in this book was facilitated by the award of a Senior Research Fellowship from the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust.

Reviews

«This is a rich and compelling volume that makes an important contribution to francophone postcolonial studies.» (Nick Nesbitt, French Studies, 2019)