The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941-1945) - Paperback

by Suzanne Césaire (Author), Daniel Maximin (Editor), Keith L. Walker (Other)

A new and complete English translation

The Great Camouflage translates and assembles in one volume the seven articles Suzanne Césaire wrote for the cultural journal Tropiques. Césaire engages anthropology, esthetics, surrealism, history, and poetry as she grapples with questions of power and deception, self-deception, the economic slipknot of a post-slavery debt system, identity and inauthenticity, bad faith, psychological and affective aberration, and cultural zombification. All are caught in the web of "the great camouflage." The collection provides a multifaceted portrait of Césaire, and includes short writings from others who wrote passionately about her, including André Breton, André Masson, René Ménil, Daniel Maximin, and her husband Aimé Césaire and daughter, Ina Césaire.

Author Biography

SUZANNE CÉSAIRE (1915 - 1966) was a French author from Martinique who along with her husband, Aimé Césaire, helped found the Négritude movement. DANIEL MAXIMIN is a Guadeloupean novelist, poet, and essayist. His most recent book is Les Fruits du cyclone: Une géopoétique de la Caraïbe. KEITH L. WALKER is a professor of French and Italian at Dartmouth College and author of Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture.