Unthinking Mastery with Suzanne Césaire

Autor: Sara Kok
Jazyk: English<br />Dutch; Flemish
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Krisis, Vol 44, Iss 1, Pp 5-18 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1875-7103
DOI: 10.21827/krisis.44.1.40979
Popis: This paper aims to read together Julietta Singh’s Unthinking Mastery and Suzanne Césaire’s The Great Camouflage in order to uncover the narrative spaces in Césaire’s work that can be fruitful for unthinking mastery. I identify four connected themes in Césaire’s work. Surrealism, rejection of doudou-ism and the natural disaster explicitly reject the construction of the Caribbean as one exoticized place and mechanisms of categorization. The only stable identity of the Caribbean is its instability. The figure of the plant-human adds to this and transcends the human/non-human dichotomy in a way that dismantles this central dichotomy altogether.
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