Appendix 1. English Translation of Léon-Gontran Damas’s “Hoquet”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. “Seeing with the Eyes of the Work” (Adorno): Césaire’s Cahier and Modernist Print Culture 29
6. 2. The Empirical Subject in Question: A Drama of Voices in Aimé Césaire’s Et les chiens se taisaient 61
7. 3. Poetry and the Typosphere in Léon-Gontran Damas 97
8. 4. Léon-Gontran Damas: Writing Rhythm in the Interwar Period 130
9. 5. Red Front / Black Front: Aimé Césaire and the Affaire Aragon 176
10. 6. To Inhabit a Wound: A Turn to Language in Martinique 204
11. Conclusion 231
12. Appendix 1. English Translation of Léon-Gontran Damas’s “Hoquet” 243
13. Appendix 2. English Translation of Aimé Césaire’s “Calendrier lagunaire” 247
14. Notes 249
15. Index 319