Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Caribbean

Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Caribbean
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In 1932, at the peak of French colonialism, a group of Martiniquan students at the Sorbonne established a Caribbean Surrealist Group, and published a single issue of a journal called LÃ©gitime dÃ©fense. Immediately banned by the authorities, it passed almost unnoticed at the time. Yet it began a remarkable series of debates between surrealism and Caribbean intellectuals that had a profound impact on the struggle for cultural identity. In the next two decades these exchanges greatly influenced the evolution of the concept of negritude, initiated revolution in Haiti in 1946, and crucially affected the development of surrealism itself.

This fascinating book presents a series of key textsâ€”most of them never before translated into Englishâ€”which reveal the complexity of this relationship between black anti-colonialist movements in the Caribbean and the most radical of the European avant-gardes. Included are RenÃ© MÃ©nilâ€™s subtle philosophical essays and the fierce polemics of AimÃ© and Suzanne CÃ©saire, appreciations of surrealism by Haitian writers, lyrical evocations of the Caribbean by AndrÃ© Breton and AndrÃ© Masson, and rich explorations of Haiti and voodoo religion by Pierre Mabille and Michel Leiris.
Country USA
Brand Verso
Manufacturer Verso
Binding Paperback
Color Blue
ReleaseDate 1996-05-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781859840184

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