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The Great Camouflage translates and assembles in one volume the seven articles Suzanne Cesaire wrote for the cultural journal Tropiques during the politically and culturally repressive years of the Vichy Regime in Martinique. Cesaire 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 multi-faceted portrait of Cesaire, and includes short writings from others who wrote passionately about her, or in collaboration with her, including Andre Breton, Andre Masson, Rene Menil, Daniel Maximin, and her husband, Aime Cesaire, and daughter, Ina Cesaire.
Synopsis
The Great Camouflage translates and assembles in one volume the seven articles Suzanne Cesaire wrote for the cultural journal Tropiques. Cesaire 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 Cesaire, and includes short writings from others who wrote passionately about her, including Andre Breton, Andre Masson, Rene Menil, Daniel Maximin, and her husband Aime Cesaire and daughter, Ina Cesaire.
Synopsis
A new and complete English translation The Great Camouflage translates and assembles in one volume the seven articles Suzanne C saire wrote for the cultural journal Tropiques. C saire 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 C saire, and includes short writings from others who wrote passionately about her, including Andr Breton, Andr Masson, Ren M nil, Daniel Maximin, and her husband Aim C saire and daughter, Ina C saire.