CÃ(c)saire is Dead
Long Live CÃ(c)saire! Recuperations and Reparations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4009182 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A James Arnold (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Politics Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1537-6370 • E-ISSN: 1558-5271 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/fpcs.2009.270302 |
| OpenAlex | W2046008265 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 1 |
Events surrounding Aimé Césaire's funeral in Martinique (April 2008) brought to the fore a number of unresolved contradictions that have swirled around his literary production, as well as his political legacy, for decades. Did Césaire really mean to speak for a culturally and historically determined group of dispossessed colonials and former colonials, as he often stated from the 1960s onward? Or did he intend to appeal to a biologically determined collective unconscious, as he sometimes stated in less guarded moments? Finally, should Césaire's ambiguous statements about the movement to require reparations from the French state for centuries of enslavement in the Antilles be taken as an endorsement of such demands? None of these questions were resolved in the flood of writing about Césaire's importance and significance in the year of his death
Appeal · Art · Art history · Ethnology · Humanities · Literature · Martinique · Political science · Politics · West indies · African history and culture studies · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |