Modernism and Negritude
The Poetry and Poetics of Aimé Césaire
by Albert James Arnold
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How does Arnold characterize Aimé Césaire’s relationship with European high modernism, and in what ways does Césaire manage to both adopt and subvert these traditions simultaneously?
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In what ways does Césaire’s deployment of surrealism function as a political weapon rather than merely an aesthetic choice in his poetry?
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How does the concept of Negritude evolve and take shape within the cultural and political contexts that Arnold establishes in the book?
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