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03630aam a2200457 i 4500 001 4ECB1E2ACD6211EE9507C16149ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240217010049 008 230405s2023 enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781837644711 020 $a 1837644713 035 $a (OCoLC)1374817775 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PQ3940.B66 $b C65 2023 050 4 $a PQ3949.A34 $b Z66 2023 082 04 $a 840.9972909045 $2 23 100 1 $a Bonner, Christopher T., $e author. 245 10 $a Cold War negritude : $b form and alignment in French Caribbean writing / $c Christopher T. Bonner. 264 1 $a Liverpool : $b Liverpool University Press, $c 2023. 300 $a ix, 215 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; $v 93 520 $a Cold war Negritude is the first book-length study of francophone Caribbean literature to foreground the political context of the global Cold War. It focuses on three canonical francophone Caribbean writers -- ReneÌ Depestre, AimeÌÌÌ CeÌsaire, and Jacques-Stephen Alexis -- whose literary careers and political alignments spanned all three "worlds" of the 1950s Cold War order. As black Caribbean authors who wrote in French, who participated directly in the global communist movement, and whose engagement with Marxist thought and practice were mediated by their colonial relationship to France, these writers expressed unique insight into this bipolar system as it was taking shape. This book shows how, over the course of the 1950s, French Caribbean Marxist authors reevaluated the literary aesthetics of Negritude and sought to develop alternatives that would be adequate to the radically changed world system of the Cold War. Through close readings of literary, theoretical, and political texts by Depestre, CeÌsaire, and Alexis, Bonner shows that this formal shift reflected a strikingly changed understanding of what it meant to write engaged literature in the new, bipolar world order. Debates about literary aesthetics became the proxy battlefield on which Antillean writers promoted and fought for their different visions of an emancipated Caribbean moderntiy. Consequent to their complicated Cold War alignments, these Antillean authors developed original and unorthodox Marxist literary aesthetics that syncretized an array of socialist literary tendencies from around the globe. -- p.4 of cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 600 10 $a Depestre, ReneÌ $x Political and social views. 600 10 $a CeÌsaire, AimeÌ $x Political and social views. 600 10 $a Alexis, Jacques SteÌphen, $d 1922-1961 $x Political and social views. 600 17 $a Alexis, Jacques SteÌphen, $d 1922-1961. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00128351 600 17 $a CeÌsaire, AimeÌ $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00029780 600 17 $a Depestre, ReneÌ $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00000403 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Caribbean literature (French) $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Cold War in literature. 650 7 $a Caribbean literature (French) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00847484 650 7 $a Cold War (1945-1989) in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00866988 650 7 $a Political and social views. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01353986 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781837644988 830 0 $a Contemporary French and francophone cultures 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240217010847.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4ECB1E2ACD6211EE9507C16149ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search