{"title":"Stately Metaphors: Aimé Césaire at the First World Festival of Negro Arts","authors":"Julian Breandán Dean","doi":"10.1353/cal.2018.a927546","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>Placing Aimé Césaire’s <i>The Tragedy of King Christophe</i> into its performance history at the First World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, Senegal, this article explores the use of tragic form in assessing the nation-state as a viable political structure in the wake of decolonization.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":501435,"journal":{"name":"Callaloo","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Callaloo","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2018.a927546","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Placing Aimé Césaire’s The Tragedy of King Christophe into its performance history at the First World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, Senegal, this article explores the use of tragic form in assessing the nation-state as a viable political structure in the wake of decolonization.