Primitivism after its poststructural eclipse -- Primitivism and philo-primitivism -- Primitivism and negritude -- The question of representation -- Primitivism and knowledge : Césaire, Fanon, and immediacy as a project -- D.H. Lawrence's narrative primitivism -- Claude McKay's primitivist narration -- Conclusion : primitivism, decolonization, and world literature.
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This book fundamentally rethinks a pervasive and controversial concept in literary criticism and the history of ideas, arguing that primitivism was an aesthetic project specific to European imperialism at its height, and that the most intensively primitivist works were produced by the colonized subjects of the imperial periphery.
JSTOR
22573/ctvqrmz38
Literary primitivism.
9781503602366
Literature-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.
Literature, Modern-- 20th century-- History and criticism.