Voicing Memory

History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature

By: Nick Nesbitt

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Paperback | 1 January 2003

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In Voicing Memory Nick Nesbitt argues that the aesthetic practices of twentieth-century French Caribbean writers reconstruct a historical awareness that had been lost amid the repressive violence of slavery, the plantation system, and colonial exploitation. Drawing on the work of AimA(c) CA(c)saire, Edouard Glissant, Daniel Maximin, Maryse CondA(c), and Edwidge Danticat, he shows how these writers use the critical force of the aesthetic imagination to transform the parameters of Antillean experience.

The author takes the aesthetic practices of the black Atlantic -- Antillean poetry, literature, and theater, but also Haitian vodou and visual arts, American jazz, and West African musical traditions -- to constitute the models informing this Caribbean vernacular historiography. At the same time, Nesbitt shows how concepts from CA(c)saire's "negritude" to Glissant's "relation" critically rework European theoretical influences to construct a black Atlantic historical self-consciousness. In so doing, Nesbitt points beyond the regionalism of Antillean exoticism to describe French Caribbean literature as a decisive intervention in the construction of a global modernity.

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A skillful balance of textualist, contextualist, and historical elements that makes a markedly original and substantial contribution to Caribbean studies--it's outstanding.

--Laurence M. Porter, author of The Crisis of French Symbolism

Voicing Memory differs from all the rest: Nesbitt's thesis of a despondent vision of history in Francophone Caribbean literature, one that is retrospective and profoundly critical, represents a new and original approach that parts company with the celebratory interpretation of the historical theme in the literature.

--F. Abiola Irele, author of The African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
List of Abbreviations	p. xix
Introduction: Aesthetic Construction and Postcolonial Subjectivity: A Genealogy of Antillean Historical Experience	p. 1
The Vicissitudes of Memory: Representations of Louis Delgres	p. 49
Antinomies of Double Consciousness in Aime Cesaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal	p. 76
Aime Cesaire, Presence africaine, and Black Atlantic Historical Experience	p. 95
Cannibalizing Hegel: Decolonization and European Theory in La tragedie du roi Christophe	p. 118
Dreaming of the Masters: Jazz and Memory in Daniel Maximin's L'Isole soleil and L'Ile et une nuit	p. 145
History, Totality and Other Modernist Projects: Global Consciousness in the Writings of Edouard Glissant	p. 170
Voicing Memory: Maryse Conde, Edwidge Danticat	p. 192
Postscript	p. 213
Notes	p. 215
Bibliography	p. 237
Index	p. 253
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