Speech delivered at the Aime Cesaire symposium
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Titre
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Speech delivered at the Aime Cesaire symposium
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Black Renaissance/Reconnaissance noire
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Titre du volume
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3
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Volume
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5
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Date
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2004/04/01
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Langue(s)
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Français
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Issn
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10893148
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Libre de droits
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Copyright Institute of African American Affairs Spring 2004
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Résumé
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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.
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Creator
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Édouard Glissant
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Subject
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African American/Caribbean/African
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Ethnic Interests
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nettoyé
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pages
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167-171, 212