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

By Suzanne Cesaire

Book Overview

A new and complete English translation

The Great Camouflage translates and assembles in one volume the seven articles Suzanne C saire wrote for the cultural journal Tropiques. C saire 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 C saire, and includes short writings from others who wrote passionately about her, including Andr Breton, Andr Masson, Ren M nil, Daniel Maximin, and her husband Aim C saire and daughter, Ina C saire.

Publication of this book is funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819572756
• ISBN13: 9780819572752
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher