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050 _aJV1818.W553 2015
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100 _aWilder, Gary
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245 0 _aFreedom Time
_b: Negritude, Decolonization and the Future of the World
_c/ Gary Wilder
260 _bDuke University Press;
_c2015
300 _a400p;
_c23x15cm
505 _aCONTENTS: 1.Cesaire, Aime 2. Senghor, Leopold Sedar, 1906-2001 3. France-Colonies-Africa-20th century 4. France-Colonies-America-20th century 5. Negritude (literary movement)
520 _aFreedom 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.
546 _aEnglish; Russian
648 _a20th century.
650 _aAime Cesaire. Leopold Senghor.
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650 _aAnti-colonial thought.
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650 _aJV1-5397 Colonies and colonization
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651 _aMartinique, Senegal
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