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Title: The Black Surrealists

The Black Surrealists

by Jean-Claude Michel (Author)
©2000 Monographs XII, 200 Pages
Romance Studies
Series: Francophone Cultures and Literatures, Volume 29

Summary

In their rebellion against Western civilization, the European surrealists contested their own society, of which, black surrealists were subjected to even harsher and shared the same dreadful racial memory of the slave ship. Black surrealists would strive to completely eradicate this hostile society by means of art, words, and metaphors.

Details

Pages
XII, 200
Publication Year
2000
ISBN (PDF)
9783034354608
ISBN (ePUB)
9783034354615
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820442693
Language
English
Publication date
2024 (August)
Keywords
rebellion society racial memory art metaphors
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2000. XII, 200 pp.
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Biographical notes

Jean-Claude Michel (Author)

The Author: Jean-Claude Michel received his early education in Haiti where he also graduated from law school. He earned an M.A. in French and Education from Brooklyn College in New York, and a Ph.D. from the City University of New York Graduate Center in July 1979. A career educator, Jean-Claude Michel has taught in Zaire, New York, and Atlanta. He is currently Bilingual Teacher Specialist with Miami-Dade Board of Education, and he is also teaching in local colleges.

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