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Article: A Tempest.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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A Tempest. By AIME CESAIRE. Trans. by PHILIP CRISPIN. London: Oberon. 2000. 64 pp. 6.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-84002-143-8.
The African independences of the late 1950s and 1960s were intensely experienced by Cesaire. The great poet of Negritude, who had become one of the foremost voices in the anti-colonial struggle, could now finally speak of the end of centuries of repression and dispossession. An unforeseen, and yet unavoidable, side effect of this change in perspective was the end of the viability of his previous poetic images of Africa (and the colonized world in general) as disempowered, violated victims of colonialism. The movement into the postcolonial ...
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