The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941-1945)

The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941-1945)

Suzanne Césaire, Daniel Maximin (Editor), Keith L. Walker (Other)
$18.95
Publication Date: May 18th, 2012
Publisher:
Wesleyan University Press
ISBN:
9780819572752
Pages:
104
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Description

A new and complete English translation

The Great Camouflage translates and assembles in one volume the seven articles Suzanne C saire wrote for the cultural journal Tropiques. C saire engages anthropology, esthetics, surrealism, history, and poetry as she grapples with questions of power and deception, self-deception, the economic slipknot of a post-slavery debt system, identity and inauthenticity, bad faith, psychological and affective aberration, and cultural zombification. All are caught in the web of "the great camouflage." The collection provides a multifaceted portrait of C saire, and includes short writings from others who wrote passionately about her, including Andr Breton, Andr Masson, Ren M nil, Daniel Maximin, and her husband Aim C saire and daughter, Ina C saire.

Publication of this book is funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

About the Author

SUZANNE CÉSAIRE (1915 - 1966) was a French author from Martinique who along with her husband, Aimé Césaire, helped found the Négritude movement. DANIEL MAXIMIN is a Guadeloupean novelist, poet, and essayist. His most recent book is Les Fruits du cyclone: Une géopoétique de la Caraïbe. KEITH L. WALKER is a professor of French and Italian at Dartmouth College and author of Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture.