{"product_id":"engagements-with-aimzs-czssaire-thinking-with-spirits-9780192867223","title":"Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits","description":"Aimé Césaire is due a major critical reinterpretation and that is exactly what this book carries out. Through an in-depth grasp of the trajectory and core significance of Césaire's work, Jason Allen-Paisant highlights a set of links it makes between 'spirit, ' 'poetry, ' and 'knowing'. These explications, setting Césaire's work in relation to a rigorously accounted for set of influences, reframe how we understand his writings, enhancing their philosophical, rather than merely political, aspects. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eEngagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits\u003c\/em\u003e is about more than Negritude (which has come to mean something less than a deep poetic sensibility with its own aspirational aesthetics and metaphysics, and rather something more like a fantasy-ridden iteration of pan-Africanism). It shows an Aimé Césaire deeply relevant to today: to the crises of ecological collapse, capitalist dystopias, and ideologies predicated upon fear and the threat of foreigners; and to contemporary chatter around interspecies collaboration and the need to rethink the entrepreneurial subject of Western political thought. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRecasting Césaire's work is not just a matter of transforming a significant figure. It is also about rethinking legacies. This book is an engagement in the truest sense--the work of a contemporary Black poet who expounds the ways in which Césaire's work articulates for him a new politics of the self.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJason Allen-Paisant, \u003cem\u003eSenior Lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing, University of Manchester\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJason Allen-Paisant\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing in the Department of English, American Studies, and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. An alumnus of the University of the West Indies (Mona), the University of Oxford, and the École normale supérieure (Ulm), he is the author of \u003cem\u003eThéâtre dialectique postcolonial\u003c\/em\u003e (2017) and of two books of poetry: \u003cem\u003eThinking with Trees\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the Poetry category of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Poetry Prize) and \u003cem\u003eSelf-Portrait as Othello\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize and the 2023 Forward Prize for Best Collection).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50489149325586,"sku":"9780192867223","price":99.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b16ce16e-cd75-469c-ab10-ff774c3d54ac.jpg?v=1730489359","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/engagements-with-aimzs-czssaire-thinking-with-spirits-9780192867223","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}