The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941–1945) [Paperback]

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.A new and complete English translationTranslator’s Introduction: Suzanne Césaire and the Great Camouflages – Keith L. Walker
Translator’s Note
Editor’s Introduction: Suzanne Césaire, sun-filled fountain – Daniel Maximin
Leo Frobenius and the Problem of Civilizations
Alain and Esthetics
André Breton, Poet
Poetic Destitution
The Malaise of a Civilization
1943: Surrealism and Us
The Great Camouflage
“The Creole Dialogue,” – Daniel Maximin
“Antille,” – André Masson
The Creole Dialogue between André Breton and André Masson
“Let Poetry Go,” – René Ménil
Aimé-Suzy, – Daniel Maximin
“Hair,” – Aimé Césaire
“Seismic Shift,” – Aimé Césaire
“Son of Thunder and Lightning,” – Aimé Césaire
“Suzanne Césaire, My Mother,” – Ina Césaire
Contributors