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Caribbean critique : Antillean critical theory from Toussaint to Glissant /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nesbitt, Nick, 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool, United Kingdom : Liverpool University Press, 2013.
Colección:Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 26.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: The Caribbean Critical Imperative.
  • Tropical Equality: The Politics of Principle. Foundations of Caribbean Critique: From Jacobinism to Black Jacobinism ; Victor Schoelcher, Tocqueville, and the Abolition of Slavery ; Aimé Césaire and the Logic of Decolonization ; Stepping Outside the Magic Circle': The Critical Thought of Maryse Condé ; Édouard Glissant: From the Destitution of the Political to Antillean Ultra-leftism.
  • Critique of Caribbean Violence. Jacobinism, Black Jacobinism, and the Foundations of Political Violence ; The Baron de Vastey and the Contradictions of Scribal Critique ; Revolutionary Inhumanism: Fanon's On Violence ; Aristide and the Politics of Democratization.
  • Critique of Caribbean Relation. Édouard Glissant: From the Poétique de la relation to the Transcendental Analytic of Relation ; Césaire and Sartre: Totalization, Relation, Responsibility ; Militant Universality: Absolutely Postcolonial ; Conclusion: Aimé Césaire: The Incandescent I, Destroyer of Worlds.