• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: The Dead End of Representation: Suzanne Césaire Discusses Roger Caillois
  • Beteiligte: Salas, Hugo
  • Erschienen: Indiana University Press, 2023
  • Erschienen in: Research in African Literatures, 53 (2023) 4, Seite 160-172
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.2979/ral.2023.a905367
  • ISSN: 1527-2044
  • Schlagwörter: Literature and Literary Theory
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p xml:lang="en"> ABSTRACT: On account of her particular reading of surrealism, this essay contends that Suzanne Césaire’s intellectual production is best understood not as heralding later strains of thought (such as Glissant’s or ecocriticism), but as part of the diverse practices of critical theory contemporary to her. To support this thesis, this article studies the coincidences and differences between her ideas on the notion of mimicry and those of Roger Callois, leading to a more complex understanding of her cardinal notion of camouflage.</jats:p>