Léopold Sédar Senghor: politician and poet between hybridity and solitude -- Aimé Césaire: from poetic insurrection to humanist ethics -- Frantz Fanon: experiments in collective identity -- Jean El-Moouhoub Amrouche: the universal intellectual? -- Mouloud Feraoun: postcolonial realism, or, the intellectual as witness -- Kateb Yacine: poetry and revolution -- Conclusion
Summary
This volume explores the impossible dilemma facing francophone intellectuals writing in the lead-up to decolonisation: how could they redefine their culture, and the 'humanity' they felt had been denied by the colonial project, in terms that did not replicate the French thinking by which they were formed?
