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The Poet's Africa - Africanness in the Poetry of Nicolas Guillen and Aime Cesaire (Hardcover, New)
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The Poet's Africa - Africanness in the Poetry of Nicolas Guillen and Aime Cesaire (Hardcover, New)
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Nicolas Guillen and Aime Cesaire are considered by many critics and
literary historians to be the foremost Caribbean poets of the 20th
century, yet they are rarely treated together. This work deals with
the two writers within a comparative framework, exploring their
poetry as the exemplification of Negritude art and writing from the
Caribbean. Josaphat Kubayanda uses non-canonical theories of
literary and cultural analysis to discuss the relationships between
creative writing, the idea of Africa, and the rediscovery of
African values in the Caribbean, and to propose and demonstrate an
original Caribbean poetics, anchored in Africa's cultural systems
and linked to Afro-American protest thought. Each of the book's
chapters focuses on an aspect of the literary development of the
African heritage and of the black condition illustrated by Guillen
and Cesaire. Chapter 1 offers an introduction to the genesis of
Caribbean rhetorical interest in Africa, from the 1920s onward, and
places Guillen and Cesaire in the context of Negritude. Chapter 2
addresses the European othering of Africa, and the Negritude
critique of this within the non-African traditions. Guillen's and
Cesaire's response to the European concept of the universal is
discussed in chapter 3, while chapter 4 demonstrates the ways in
which blackness is caught between racial otherness and trying to
integrate into the Caribbean social order. The final two chapters
provide an analysis of the polyrhythmic unity of the African
cultural system that allows Guillen and Cesaire to make technical
innovations, and a conclusion acknowledges the writers' place in
Caribbean creative writing. The volume also contains an updated
bibliography on Caribbean literature and the African element. This
work will be a valuable reference source for courses in Caribbean
and African literary studies, Latin American literature, and
Afro-American and African culture, and an important addition to
both public and academic libraries.
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