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chillcox15's review
5.0
It's fascinating reading this (for the first time, somewhat ashamedly) alongside Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth; Césaire's poetic inclinations show through here, turning his righteous fury at the bourgeois-colonialist class into a succinct stab of language. The dossier is indeed overwhelming.
pink_distro's review
5.0
so good,, it takes you through all the things colonialism does to ideologically transform both the rulers and the masses of the west — such as western academics & leaders spending years burying and degrading precolonial cultures and societies in africa, asia, and the americas. once that fundamental belief in white moral & cultural supremacy was established, the road is paved for true fascism and genocide through colonization ... this is how "colonization works to *decivilize* the colonizer, to *brutalize* him in the true sense of the word, to degrade him," (pg 35). and that brutalization is what allowed things like fascism in the 30s to surface in europe,, and it's what i think still allows white people and colonizer society to so easily make peace with the truly unfathomable violence of the american military, prisons, policing, etc.
all of this is written in an amazing style (i dont honestly know what surrealism really is, but the preface says this is surrealist and that checks out 2 me !) which often uses humor to deal with the nonsensical rationalizations & ideologies of colonialism. and the text of the main thing is just like 50 pages, and i have a pdf of it if you'd like! so if you want to read it just ask and i can email to you, or you can probably find it on the internet pretty easily.
all of this is written in an amazing style (i dont honestly know what surrealism really is, but the preface says this is surrealist and that checks out 2 me !) which often uses humor to deal with the nonsensical rationalizations & ideologies of colonialism. and the text of the main thing is just like 50 pages, and i have a pdf of it if you'd like! so if you want to read it just ask and i can email to you, or you can probably find it on the internet pretty easily.
mimissyouuu's review
5.0
"which comes down to saying that the salvation of europe is not a matter of a revolution in methods. it is a matter of the Revolution - the one which, until such time as there is a classless society, will substitute for the narrow tyranny of a dehumanized bourgeoisie the preponderance of the only class that still has a universal mission, because it suffers in its flesh from all the wrongs of history, from all the universal wrongs: the proletariat." beautifully written!!!!! nothing else to say besides i love aime cesaire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
idara's review
5.0
Brilliant and Cesaire remains on the pulse of the evils of colonialism till this day.
tsharris's review
5.0
Wish I had read it years ago. Stunning rejection of western imperial order and global white supremacy.