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Region. 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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (first published in 1939, with two revised editions in 1947 and a final edition in 1956), variously translated as Notebook of a Return to My Native Land, Return to My Native Land, or Journal of a Homecoming, is a book-length poem by Martinican writer Aimé Césaire, considered his masterwork, that mixes poetry and prose to express his thoughts on the cultural ...
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 ...
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 ...