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Martinican literature. Martinican literature is primarily written in French or Creole and draws upon influences from African, French and Indigenous traditions, as well as from various other cultures represented in Martinique. [1] The development of literature in Martinique is linked to that of other parts of the French Caribbean but has its own ...
Aimé Césaire was born in Basse-Pointe, Martinique, French Caribbean, in 1913.His father was a tax inspector, and his mother was a dressmaker. 'Although in his Cahier he evoked his childhood as poverty-stricken and squalid, his family was part of the island's small, black middle class.' [5] His family moved to the capital of Martinique, Fort-de-France, in order for Césaire to attend the only ...
French philosophy. School. Postcolonialism. Notable ideas. Poetics of relation · theory of the rhizome. Édouard Glissant (21 September 1928 – 3 February 2011) [1] was a Martinican writer, poet, philosopher, and literary critic. [2] He is an influential figure in Caribbean thought and cultural commentary and Francophone literature. [1]
Notable work. I Am a Martinican Woman. Lucette Céranus Combette (17 February 1916 – 24 November 1955), known by her pen name Mayotte Capécia was a writer from Martinique. She is best known for her novel I Am a Martinican Woman (French: Je suis martiniquaise), published in 1948, which was the first book published in France by a woman of ...
Jean Bernabé (1942 in Le Lorrain, Martinique – 12 April 2017 in Fort-De-France, Martinique) was a writer and linguist. Bernabé was a professor of language and culture at the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane. He was an important figure in the créolité movement, having co-authored the seminal 1989 essay on the subject, Eloge de la ...
Jeanne "Jane" Nardal (1900 – 1993) [1] was a French writer, philosopher, teacher, and political commentator from Martinique.She and her sister, Paulette Nardal, are considered to have laid the theoretical and philosophical groundwork of the Négritude movement, a cultural, political, and literary movement, which first emerged in 1930s, Paris and sought to unite Black intellectuals in the ...
Tropiques. Tropiques was a quarterly literary magazine published in Martinique from 1941 to 1945. It was founded by Aimé Césaire, Suzanne Césaire, and other Martinican intellectuals of the era, who contributed poetry, essays, and fiction to the magazine. While resisting the Vichy-supported government that ruled Martinique at the time, the ...
Créolité. Créolité is a literary movement first developed in the 1980s by the Martinican writers Patrick Chamoiseau, Jean Bernabé and Raphaël Confiant. They published Eloge de la créolité (In Praise of Creoleness) in 1989 as a response to the perceived inadequacies of the négritude movement. Créolité, or "creoleness", is a neologism ...