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Paris, race and universalism in the Black Atlantic: Leopold Sedar Senghor, Simone de Beauvoir, Boris Vian and Richard Wright (France).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Paris, race and universalism in the Black Atlantic: Leopold Sedar Senghor, Simone de Beauvoir, Boris Vian and Richard Wright (France)./
Author:	Ruquist, Rebecca Brita.
Description:	361 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-10, Section: A, page: 3704.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-10A.
Subject:	Literature, Romance. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3109455
ISBN:	0496569972

Paris, race and universalism in the Black Atlantic: Leopold Sedar Senghor, Simone de Beauvoir, Boris Vian and Richard Wright (France).
Ruquist, Rebecca Brita.

Paris, race and universalism in the Black Atlantic: Leopold Sedar Senghor, Simone de Beauvoir, Boris Vian and Richard Wright (France). - 361 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-10, Section: A, page: 3704.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2003.

This dissertation explores the relationship between universalism and race in 20th century French, Francophone and African American literature and culture. Chapter one historicizes universalist thought in France from its Enlightenment inception to its 20th century reappraisal by postcolonial and Marxist critics. It outlines the relationship of universalism, cosmopolitanism and humanism with French theories of difference and representations of race. The second chapter addresses Leopold Sedar Senghor's Negritude as a universalism, and explores how it was compatible with Senghor's allegiance to racial ideology. The chapter also contains a close analysis of Senghor's ambivalence towards France in the Hosties noires poems. Chapter three focuses on racial exoticism in Simone de Beauvoir's first novel, L'Invitee, and argues that colonial empire and its corollary, racialization, pervaded everyday life in interwar France, and in Beauvoir's novel serves as a metaphor for homosexuality. The chapter also traces the development of Beauvoir's antiracism in the post-World War Two period, which I argue was crucial in laying the groundwork for Le Deuxieme sexe. The fourth chapter turns to Boris Vian, a French jazz musician, translator and novelist who passed for black with his novel of the American South, J'irai cracher sur vos tombes. Vian's representation if not appropriation of black masculinity repeats stereotypes dating back centuries, even while his novel initially appears antiracist and progressive. In this chapter I hold that Vian's manipulation of the image of the black serves to secure his place in the forefront of the French avant-garde. Chapter five studies African American author Richard Wright's exile in Paris as an example of the antiracist possibilities of French universalism, and claims that the Paris years were crucial in moving Wright's concerns towards the Third World and anticolonialism. This chapter is centered around a close reading of an unpublished important novel, Island of Hallucinations .

ISBN: 0496569972Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019014
Literature, Romance.

Paris, race and universalism in the Black Atlantic: Leopold Sedar Senghor, Simone de Beauvoir, Boris Vian and Richard Wright (France).
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