| Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World Contributor(s): Wilder, Gary (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822358506 ISBN-13: 9780822358503 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $29.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Modern - 20th Century - History | Africa - General - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 325.3 |
| LCCN: 2014040365 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.10 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aim C saire (Martinique) and L opold S dar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promoted self-determination without state sovereignty. As politicians, public intellectuals, and poets they struggled to transform imperial France into a democratic federation, with former colonies as autonomous members of a transcontinental polity. In so doing, they revitalized past but unrealized political projects and anticipated impossible futures by acting as if they had already arrived. Refusing to reduce colonial emancipation to national independence, they regarded decolonization as an opportunity to remake the world, reconcile peoples, and realize humanity's potential. Emphasizing the link between politics and aesthetics, Gary Wilder reads C saire and Senghor as pragmatic utopians, situated humanists, and concrete cosmopolitans whose postwar insights can illuminate current debates about self-management, postnational politics, and planetary solidarity. Freedom Time invites scholars to decolonize intellectual history and globalize critical theory, to analyze the temporal dimensions of political life, and to question the territorialist assumptions of contemporary historiography. |
