Poetic Productions of Cultural Combat inTropiques

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4835339
AutoresKaterina Gonzalez Seligmann (autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen115
Número3
Páginas495-512
Fecha de publicación2016-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSouth Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00382876-3608609
OpenAlexW2464059750
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas11

Tropiques, produced in Martinique between 1941 and 1945, was one of the most influential Caribbean instances of the modernist little magazine, or petit revue. The magazine was a collaborative cultural venture that saw Martinique through its subjection to Vichy rule and ended when direct political participation became possible for its generators. Tropiques was first conceived by Aimé Césaire and edited by him, the philosopher René Ménil, and the cultural theorist Suzanne Césaire, all teachers at the Lycée Schoelcher in Fort-de-France. The magazine's final publication, in 1945, gave way directly to Aimé Césaire's political career as the mayor of Fort-de-France and representative to the French National Assembly. As he explained retrospectively, upon the Liberation, Tropiques' cultural combat gave way to political combat. This essay examines the achievements of Tropiques' cultural combat: resistance to the Vichy regime and literary marginality, a theory of locally situated poetry as an avenue for freedom, and poetic interventions in racist colonial ideology

Archaeology · Art · Art history · Colonialism · Ethnology · Humanities · Ideology · Literature · Martinique · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Sociology · West indies · African history and culture studies · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law