Chapter 3: Europe

Martin Munro

From Shaping and Reshaping the Caribbean: The Work of Aimé Césaire and René Depestre (2000), pp. 44-81, doi:10.59860/td.c26ad2f

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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.  Europe exists as an omnipresence in Césaire's work; it is the fundamentally negative point in the circuit triangulaire, the source of all the alienation, dislocation and indeterminacy which, as we have seen, characterize the presentation of the other two points. It is the cause of Césaire's 'problème', the root of his dilemma, and as such, is somehow ineradicable, an inescapable presence which penetrates every layer of the poetry and theatre.

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