Post-Mémoire de "Légitime défence"
Post-Memory of "Légitime défence"

Author(s): Ewa Kalinowska
Subject(s): Literary Texts, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: “Légitime Défense”; manifesto; Martinican identity; surrealism; communism
Summary/Abstract: The review “Légitime Défense”, created by a group of Martinican students in Paris, is often presented as a manifesto more political than literary, without substantial consequences. However, it has induced responses and is remembered in Negro-African intellectual circles all around the world. The 90th anniversary of its publication approaching, it seems well-founded to read and analyze over the « Avertissement » in order to evaluate its substantive and aesthetic importance.

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