The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941-1945) (Trans. from the French)

The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941-1945) (Trans. from the French)

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Author/Contributor(s): Césaire, Suzanne ; Maximin, Daniel ; Walker, Keith L ; Walker, Keith L
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Date: 05/18/2012
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
A new and complete English translation

The Great Camouflage translates and assembles in one volume the seven articles Suzanne Césaire wrote for the cultural journal Tropiques. Césaire engages anthropology, esthetics, surrealism, history, and poetry as she grapples with questions of power and deception, self-deception, the economic slipknot of a post-slavery debt system, identity and inauthenticity, bad faith, psychological and affective aberration, and cultural zombification. All are caught in the web of the great camouflage. The collection provides a multifaceted portrait of Césaire, and includes short writings from others who wrote passionately about her, including André Breton, André Masson, René Ménil, Daniel Maximin, and her husband Aimé Césaire and daughter, Ina Césaire.