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French-English bilingual edition. Andre Breton called Cesaire's
Cahier 'nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of this
time'. It is a seminal text in Surrealist, French and Black
literatures - published in full in English for the first time in
Bloodaxe's bilingual Contemporary French Poets series. Aime Cesaire
(1913-2008) was born in in Basse-Pointe, a village on the north
coast of Martinique, a former French colony in the Caribbean (now
an overseas departement of France). His book Discourse on
Colonialism (1950) is a classic of French political literature.
Notebook of a Return to My Native Land (1956) is the foundation
stone of francophone Black literature: it is here that the word
Negritude appeared for the first time. Negritude has come to mean
the cultural, philosophical and political movement co-founded in
Paris in the 1930s by three Black students from French colonies:
the poets Leon-Gontran Damas from French Guiana; Leopold Senghor,
later President of Senegal; and Aime Cesaire, who became a deputy
in the French National Assembly for the Revolutionary Party of
Martinique and was repeatedly elected Mayor of Fort-de-France. As a
poet, Cesaire believed in the revolutionary power of language, and
in the Notebook he combined high literary French with Martinican
colloquialisms, and archaic turns of phrase with dazzling new
coinages. The result is a challenging and deeply moving poem on the
theme of the future of the negro race which presents and enacts the
poignant search for a Martinican identity. The Notebook opposes the
ideology of colonialism by inventing a language that refuses
assimilation to a dominant cultural norm, a language that teaches
resistance and liberation.
In recent years, hospitality has emerged as a category in French
thinking for addressing a range of issues associated with
immigration and other types of journeys. Rosello's book
concentrates primarily on France and its former colonies in North
and sub-Saharan Africa and considers how hospitality and its
dissidence are defined, practiced, and represented in European and
African fictions, theories, and myths at the end of the twentieth
century. "Postcolonial Hospitality" explores the ways in which
Western superpowers rewrite ideals of hospitality that are borrowed
from a variety of sources and that sometimes constitute an
incompatible system of values.
Each chapter focuses on a problematic moment when hospitality is
read either as excessive or lacking: when the host does not give
what is ideally expected; when the guest is mistreated rather than
protected; when the guest abuses the host rather than being
grateful. In considering these issues, the author examines the
relationship between ownership and generosity, focusing
specifically on the connections among nationalism, immigration, and
hospitality. Because the intersections between cultural differences
and issues of gender often expose the fragility or arbitrariness of
hospitable conventions, the author studies novels, films, and
immigrant interviews that explore those moments of crisis when
systems of hospitality clash.
What's Queer about Europe? examines how queer theory helps us
initiate disorienting conjunctions and counterintuitive encounters
for imagining historical and contemporary Europe. This book queers
Europe and Europeanizes queer, forcing a reconsideration of both.
Its contributors study Europe relationally, asking not so much what
Europe is but what we do when we attempt to define it.
The topics discussed include: gay marriage in Renaissance Rome,
Russian anarchism and gender politics in early-twentieth-century
Switzerland, colonialism and sexuality in Italy, queer
masculinities in European popular culture, queer national
identities in French cinema, and gender theories and activism. What
these apparently disparate topics have in common is the urgency of
the political, legal, and cultural issues they tackle. Asking what
is queer about Europe means probing the blind spots that continue
to structure the long and discrepant process of Europeanization.
In recent years, hospitality has emerged as a category in French
thinking for addressing a range of issues associated with
immigration and other types of journeys. Rosello's book
concentrates primarily on France and its former colonies in North
and sub-Saharan Africa and considers how hospitality and its
dissidence are defined, practiced, and represented in European and
African fictions, theories, and myths at the end of the twentieth
century. "Postcolonial Hospitality" explores the ways in which
Western superpowers rewrite ideals of hospitality that are borrowed
from a variety of sources and that sometimes constitute an
incompatible system of values.
Each chapter focuses on a problematic moment when hospitality is
read either as excessive or lacking: when the host does not give
what is ideally expected; when the guest is mistreated rather than
protected; when the guest abuses the host rather than being
grateful. In considering these issues, the author examines the
relationship between ownership and generosity, focusing
specifically on the connections among nationalism, immigration, and
hospitality. Because the intersections between cultural differences
and issues of gender often expose the fragility or arbitrariness of
hospitable conventions, the author studies novels, films, and
immigrant interviews that explore those moments of crisis when
systems of hospitality clash.
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