In Voicing Memory Nick Nesbitt argues that the aesthetic
practices of twentieth-century French Caribbean writers reconstruct
a historical awareness that had been lost amid the repressive
violence of slavery, the plantation system, and colonial
exploitation. Drawing on the work of Aime Cesaire, Edouard
Glissant, Daniel Maximin, Maryse Conde, and Edwidge Danticat, he
shows how these writers use the critical force of the aesthetic
imagination to transform the parameters of Antillean
experience.
The author takes the aesthetic practices of the black
Atlantic--Antillean poetry, literature, and theater, but also
Haitian vodou and visual arts, American jazz, and West African
musical traditions--to constitute the models informing this
Caribbean vernacular historiography. At the same time, Nesbitt
shows how concepts from Cesaire's "negritude" to Glissant's
"relation" critically rework European theoretical influences to
construct a black Atlantic historical self-consciousness. In so
doing, Nesbitt points beyond the regionalism of Antillean exoticism
to describe French Caribbean literature as a decisive intervention
in the construction of a global modernity.
New World Studies
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