Conclusion

Martin Munro

From Shaping and Reshaping the Caribbean: The Work of Aimé Césaire and René Depestre (2000), pp. 244-52, doi:10.59860/td.c8c6747

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Part of the book: Shaping and Reshaping the Caribbean

Martin Munro

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 52

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Abstract.  Subsequent Martinican authors have called the circuit triangulaire into question, and have attempted a certain reshaping of Césaire's model. The debate lying behind these shapings and reshapings concerns national, racial, cultural, even hemispheric self-definition, and how to construct this in a (non-)place such as Martinique, and the Caribbean in general, whose schismatic and traumatic historical reality has radically problematized the question of belonging and identity.

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