Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World - Couverture souple

Wilder, Gary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822358506 ISBN 13 : 9780822358503

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aimé Césaire (Martinique) and Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promoted self-determination without state sovereignty. As politicians, public intellectuals, and poets they struggled to transform imperial France into a democratic federation, with former colonies as autonomous members of a transcontinental polity. In so doing, they revitalized past but unrealized political projects and anticipated impossible futures by acting as if they had already arrived. Refusing to reduce colonial emancipation to national independence, they regarded decolonization as an opportunity to remake the world, reconcile peoples, and realize humanity's potential. Emphasizing the link between politics and aesthetics, Gary Wilder reads Césaire and Senghor as pragmatic utopians, situated humanists, and concrete cosmopolitans whose postwar insights can illuminate current debates about self-management, postnational politics, and planetary solidarity. Freedom Time invites scholars to decolonize intellectual history and globalize critical theory, to analyze the temporal dimensions of political life, and to question the territorialist assumptions of contemporary historiography.

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À propos de l?auteur

Gary Wilder is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0822358506
• ISBN 13: 9780822358503
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 277
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible