Modernism and negritude
Subtitle: the poetry and poetics of Aimé Césaire
By: by A. James Arnold.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Césaire, Aimé -- Criticism and interpretation.; Césaire, Aimé -- Aesthetics.; Modernism (Literature) -- Martinique.; Negritude (Literary movement); Blacks -- Race identity.; Poetics -- History -- 20th century.
Description: James Arnold here presents in its political and culture context the work of the greatest visionary poet writing in French since the Romantic period. Aimé Césaire's surrealism is seen as subverting, in the name of black experience, the very European high moderism he assimilated and employed. -- Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.