The Poetics of Being Mad and Black: (Psycho)analyzing the Évolué

Authors

  • Chienyn Chi

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1234/fa.v0i75.255

Keywords:

psychoanalysis, poetics, colonialism

Abstract

I propose a new methodology of reading – psychopoetics – to interpret Césaire's long poem, Notebook. To better tailor this method to a specifically psychoanalytic and anti-colonial literary object, I draw on Charles Bernheimer, but I also borrow from other thinkers like Shoshanna Felman, Walter Benjamin, Frantz Fanon, Suzanne Césaire, and Paul de Man. I define psychopoetics as a way to examine the act of writing in psychoanalytical and rhetorical terms.

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Published

2019-05-11

How to Cite

Chi, C. (2019). The Poetics of Being Mad and Black: (Psycho)analyzing the Évolué. Free Associations, (75), 102–125. https://doi.org/10.1234/fa.v0i75.255

Issue

No. 75 (2019)

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Articles

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