Chapter 2: Africa
Martin Munro
From Shaping and Reshaping the Caribbean: The Work of Aimé Césaire and René Depestre (2000), pp. 10-43, doi:10.59860/td.c15b94c
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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 Abstract. Given his deep sense of the Caribbean as a barren, uncreative space, it is scarcely surprising that Césaire should have looked first to the continent of origin as a source of ethnic identity and cultural depth. What is perhaps surprising is that his enthusiasm for Africanity has endured even as new generations of Caribbean authors have progressively looked inwards and identified a creative potential born out of the chaotic meeting of Amerindian, European and African cultures in the New World. Full text. This contribution is published as Open Access and can be downloaded as a PDF, or viewed as a PDF in your web browser, here: |
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