By Nick Nesbitt

ISBN-10: 1786940388

ISBN-13: 9781786940384

ISBN-10: 1846318661

ISBN-13: 9781846318665

Caribbean Critique seeks to outline and research the special contribution of francophone Caribbean thinkers to perimetric serious idea. The e-book argues that their singular undertaking has been to forge a model of critique that, whereas borrowing from North Atlantic predecessors equivalent to Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Sartre, was once from the beginning indelibly marked by means of the center Passage, slavery, and colonialism. Chapters and sections tackle figures similar to Toussaint Louverture, Baron de Vastey, Victor Schoelcher, goalé Césaire, René Ménil, Frantz Fanon, Maryse Condé, and Edouard Glissant, whereas an in depth theoretical advent defines the fundamental parameters of 'Caribbean Critique.'

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