Césaire

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani discusses Aimé Césaire mainly in 2017, in his sessions on Stanislas Adotevi's Négritude et négrologues. He compares him with Senghor: Césaire is less concerned with the divide between concept and rhythm1, and he experiences negritude as a Martinican suffering, as opposed to what he calls Senghor's "happy negritude"2. He cites the Cahier d'un retour au pays natal and the Discours sur le colonialisme among the texts of militant negritude3. He judges his early writings positive and finds him less open to criticism than Senghor, because the Antillean milieu is more homogeneous, marked by slavery and in a minority position4. He reports Adotevi's criticism, which faults him for a theoretical incompleteness: independence is never spoken of, since Césaire remains within the French system5. He also retains the idea that one who has suffered must reach out to everyone. In 2021, he sees Césaire as an author who makes negritude a banner against the colonizer and claims the word "nègre" for himself6.

1. 1Négritude et négrologues / Adotevi par Pagani (2017)8 Jun 2017 · 7:06
2. 2Adotevi : Négritude et négrologues (1)17 Jun 2017 · 16:19
3. 3Adotevi : Négritude et négrologues (1)17 Jun 2017 · 22:20
4. 4Négritude et négrologues / Adotevi par Pagani (2017)8 Jun 2017 · 36:19
5. 5Adotevi : Négritude et négrologues (1)17 Jun 2017 · 24:01
6. 6«Rouges-bruns», «décolonial» : Faut-il utiliser la langue dominante ? • Q&A Philosophique • Pagani31 Mar 2021 · 1:28:55

Summary produced automatically from 11 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.