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Caribbean Critique
Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant. Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures 26
By (author)
Nick Nesbitt
Genres:
Literary theory, Literary studies: general
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Synopsis
Caribbean Critique seeks to define and analyze the distinctive contribution of francophone Caribbean thinkers to perimetric Critical Theory. The book argues that their singular project has been to forge a brand of critique that, while borrowing from North Atlantic predecessors such as Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Sartre, was from the start indelibly marked by the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonialism. Chapters and sections address figures such as Toussaint Louverture, Baron de Vastey, Victor Schoelcher, Aime Cesaire, Rene Menil, Frantz Fanon, Maryse Conde, and Edouard Glissant, while an extensive theoretical introduction defines the essential parameters of 'Caribbean Critique.' New & Used
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What Reviewers Are Saying
'This is a very important and exciting book. Extending to the whole of the French Caribbean his previous work on the philosophical bases of the Haitian Revolution, Nesbitt has produced the first ever account of the region's writing from a consistently philosophical, as distinct from literary or historical, standpoint.'
Celia Britton '... the book fills an important gap in francophone Caribbean studies, which has always had a strong theoretical component but, arguably, has not previously been subject to such a rigorously philosophical critical treatment. ... latest study will prove to be a landmark, indeed seminal, work in Caribbean Critique.'
French Studies 'Nesbitt's book may be read as a survey, it also offers extremely succinct, complex, and compelling new perspectives on polemical issues that inhabit our work as professors, pedagogues, and intellectuals today...'
Contemporary French Civilization 'Nesbitt has made an important and highly original contribution to such debates.'
New West Indian Guide Reviews
'A prodigiously researched and compelling conceptualisation of francophone Caribbean critical thought.'
Gabriella Rodriguez, SX Salon
Celia Britton '... the book fills an important gap in francophone Caribbean studies, which has always had a strong theoretical component but, arguably, has not previously been subject to such a rigorously philosophica
French Studies 'Nesbitt's book may be read as a survey, it also offers extremely succinct, complex, and compelling new perspectives
Contemporary
New West Indian Guide Reviews
'A prodigiously
Gabriella Rodriguez, SX Salon