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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 ...
French philosophy. School. Postcolonialism. Notable ideas. Poetics of relation · theory of the rhizome. Édouard Glissant (21 September 1928 – 3 February 2011) [1] was a French writer, poet, philosopher, and literary critic from Martinique. [2] He is an influential figure in Caribbean thought and cultural commentary and Francophone literature.
France. I Am a Martinican Woman (French: Je suis Martiniquaise) is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Lucette Céranus (1916–1955), under the pseudonym Mayotte Capécia, in the mid-twentieth century. [1] It tells the story of Mayotte's childhood and young adulthood, including her relationship with a white officer who ultimately abandons ...
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 ...
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 ...
Frantz Omar Fanon was born on 20 July 1925 in Fort-de-France, Martinique, which was then part of the French colonial empire.His father, Félix Casimir Fanon, worked as a customs officer, while Fanon's mother, Eléanore Médélice, who was of Afro-Caribbean and French descent, was a shopkeeper. [17]
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 ...
Simone Yoyotte (c. 1910 – 1933), also known as Symone Monnerot, was a Martinican poet and intellectual. Born in Martinique, she settled in Paris, where she joined the literary scene. She was the only woman to participate in the literary journal Légitime Défense, [1] co-founded in 1932 by the Martinican writers Étienne Léro, René Méril ...