Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print: Aesthetic Subjectivity, Diaspora, and the Lyric Regime

Carrie Noland

Published by Columbia University Press 2015

Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print

Aesthetic Subjectivity, Diaspora, and the Lyric Regime

Carrie Noland

In the series Modernist Latitudes

https://doi.org/10.7312/nola16704

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Approaches Negritude as an experimental, text-based poetic movement developed by diasporic authors of African descent through the means of modernist print culture

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Carrie Noland is professor of French and comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Poetry at Stake: Lyric Aesthetics and the Challenge of Technology and Agency and Embodiment: Performing Gestures/Producing Culture. Along with coediting two collections of essays, Migrations of Gesture (with Sally Ann Ness) and Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement (with Barrett Watten), she has published numerous essays on avant-garde literature and art.

Reviews

Refreshing and rigorously researched.... In short, Noland's work is a significant contribution to Negritude scholarship.

Brent Hayes Edwards, author of The Practice of Diaspora:
With restless, relentless 'attention to the letter,' Carrie Noland demonstrates that the poetic innovations of Césaire and Damas were first of all major modernist interventions, deeply engaged with the textual sphere of experimental print culture in the interwar period. These virtuosic, revisionary readings are an exhilarating model of what it means to do Diasporic literary criticism today.

Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University:
Carrie Noland's Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print is a landmark work, inaugurating a decisive and crucial advance in our understanding of the poets of Negritude. Noland argues compellingly for a text-centered interpretive practice, one that attends to the determinations of the print medium understood as an aesthetic regime independent of the author's scribal utterance, and the struggle to construct what she terms, following Adorno, an 'aesthetic subjectivity' immanent to the text itself. This path-breaking and original work gathers together the various studies of Negritude poetry of the preceding decades to make an informed, compelling, and necessary intervention into the heart of francophone studies.

J. Michael Dash, New York University:
Carrie Noland offers a timely warning about the tendency to treat literature as a whole as an adjunct to sociopolitical reality. Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print boldly explores the tensions between formally experimental verse and the prevailing identity politics of postcolonial theory.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. “Seeing with the Eyes of the Work” (Adorno): Césaire’s Cahier and Modernist Print Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
2. The Empirical Subject in Question: A Drama of Voices in Aimé Césaire’s Et les chiens se taisaient Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
3. Poetry and the Typosphere in Léon-Gontran Damas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
4. Léon-Gontran Damas: Writing Rhythm in the Interwar Period Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
5. Red Front / Black Front: Aimé Césaire and the Affaire Aragon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
6. To Inhabit a Wound: A Turn to Language in Martinique Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Appendix 1. English Translation of Léon-Gontran Damas’s “Hoquet” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Appendix 2. English Translation of Aimé Césaire’s “Calendrier lagunaire” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 344
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 6
- Other: 6 b&w illustrations

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Published: April 28, 2015
ISBN: 9780231538640