The Poet's Africa: Africanness in the Poetry of Nicolas Guillen and Aime CesaireBloomsbury Academic, 1990 M10 17 - 176 pages Nicolas Guillen and Aime Cesaire are considered by many critics and literary historians to be the foremost Caribbean poets of the 20th century, yet they are rarely treated together. This work deals with the two writers within a comparative framework, exploring their poetry as the exemplification of Negritude art and writing from the Caribbean. Josaphat Kubayanda uses non-canonical theories of literary and cultural analysis to discuss the relationships between creative writing, the idea of Africa, and the rediscovery of African values in the Caribbean, and to propose and demonstrate an original Caribbean poetics, anchored in Africa's cultural systems and linked to Afro-American protest thought. |
Contents
Inventing the Primitive African | 17 |
Calling into Question the Universals | 33 |
Race | 51 |
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