Chapter 5: Rhythms, Repetitions, and the circuit triangulaire

Martin Munro

From Shaping and Reshaping the Caribbean: The Work of Aimé Césaire and René Depestre (2000), pp. 112-39, doi:10.59860/td.c4895bd

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Part of the book: Shaping and Reshaping the Caribbean

Martin Munro

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Abstract.  Chapter 4 showed how the workings of the circuit triangulaire become profoundly confused in Césaire's use of language. This sort of study is necessarily intricate, and the search for definite answers is often frustrated. In this chapter, I will carry out a similar analysis of Césaire's rhythms, as this is another area which has generated much debate, with many conflicting opinions, all of which come from one or other point of the circuit triangulaire.

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