CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. “Seeing with the Eyes of the Work” (Adorno): Césaire’s Cahier and Modernist Print Culture

2. The Empirical Subject in Question: A Drama of Voices in Aimé Césaire’s Et les chiens se taisaient

3. Poetry and the Typosphere in Léon-Gontran Damas

4. Léon-Gontran Damas: Writing Rhythm in the Interwar Period

5. Red Front / Black Front: Aimé Césaire and the Affaire Aragon

6. To Inhabit a Wound: A Turn to Language in Martinique

Conclusion

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

Appendix 2 English Translation of Aimé Césaire’s “Calendrier lagunaire”

Notes

Index