Speech delivered at the Aime Cesaire symposium

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Titre
Speech delivered at the Aime Cesaire symposium
Black Renaissance/Reconnaissance noire
Titre du volume
3
Volume
5
Date
2004/04/01
Langue(s)
Français
Issn
10893148
Libre de droits
Copyright Institute of African American Affairs Spring 2004
Résumé
When he replaces the word catholic, which in effect would signify the universal, with the word tyrannical, "You still know my tyrannical love for them", in Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, a substitution that might have distressed his friend Leopold-Sedar Senghor, he means to say that he cannot lose his fondness for this flesh of the world, that he is not free to escape in the world, and that he has put before himself this enormous task of naming all of its flavors, all its heights, without exception "counting all insects, all disputes, all disasters..."
New York University, December 4-6, 2003.
Creator
Édouard Glissant
Subject
African American/Caribbean/African
Ethnic Interests
nettoyé
pages
167-171, 212