Providing a reading of Aime Césaire and Leopold Senghor as political thinkers, Gary Wilder explains how these eminent anti-colonial thinkers, poets and political leaders sought to remake France by advocating for colonial self-determination and fuller racial and cultural integration within the French empire.
Gary Wilder is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.¿ He is the author of The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars.