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Part of the book: Shaping and Reshaping the Caribbean

Martin Munro

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 52

Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association

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Abstract.  In Césaire's work it is possible to derive a sense of a divided Caribbean self, unfixed, uncertain, torn between different continents, belonging to none but the influence of each being felt simultaneously. The Antillean feels a dizzying, disorientating sense of his place in the world. And yet, despite the incessant, unpredictable movement, there is also a paradoxical feeling of being stuck, unable to move; of being fixed in instability.

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