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FREEDOM TIME F REEDOM TIME Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World Gary Wilder Duke University Press Durham and London 2015 © 2015 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid- free paper ∞ Designed by Courtney Leigh Baker Typeset in Univers by Westchester Book Group Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wilder, Gary. Freedom time : Negritude, decolonization, and the future of the world / Gary Wilder. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8223-5839-8 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8223-5850-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8223-7579-1 (e-book) 1. Césaire, Aimé. 2. Senghor, Léopold Sédar, 1906–2001. 3. France—Colonies—Africa—20th century. 4. France—Colonies—America—20th century. 5. Negritude (Literary movement). I. Title. jv1818.w553 2015 325'.3—dc23 2014040365 Cover art: (top) Léopold Senghor. Felix Man/Picture Post/Getty Images; (bottom) Aimé Césaire. © Mario Dondero. For Rachel & Isabel In memoriam Marilyn Wilder & Fernando Coronil NON- TIME IMPOSES ON TIME THE TYRANNY OF ITS SPATIALITY. —Aimé Césaire CONTENTS Preface xi Ac know ledg ments xv 1 Unthinking France, Rethinking Decolonization 1 2 Situating Césaire 17 Antillean Awakening and Global Redemption 3 Situating Senghor 49 African Hospitality and Human Solidarity 4 Freedom, Time, Territory 74 5 Departmentalization and the Spirit of Schoelcher 106 6 Federalism and the Future of France 133 7 Antillean Autonomy and the Legacy of Louverture 167 8 African Socialism and the Fate of the World 206 9 Decolonization and Postnational Democracy 241 Chronology 261 Notes 275 Works Cited 333 Index 373
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