El trabajo de Gary Wilder profundiza en las complejidades del estado-nación imperial francés, explorando los conceptos entrelazados de Negritud y humanismo colonial entre las dos Guerras Mundiales. Su escritura ofrece un examen crítico de cómo se construyeron las identidades nacionales dentro de los marcos coloniales. La perspectiva antropológica de Wilder proporciona una profunda visión de las corrientes intelectuales que dieron forma tanto a los colonizadores como a los colonizados. Su erudición es reconocida por su riguroso análisis y su reflexiva exploración de las dinámicas de poder históricas.
Through a critique of Left realism, culturalism, and pessimism from the standpoint of heterodox Marxism and Black radicalism, Gary Wilder insists that we place questions of solidarity and temporality at the center of Left political thinking. He makes a bold case for embracing a concrete utopian politics of the possible-impossible adequate to current planetary crises.
Providing a reading of Aime Cesaire 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.
France experienced a period of crisis following World War I when the relationship between the nation and its colonies became a subject of fierce public debate. This book focuses on two intersecting movements that redefined imperial politics - colonial humanism, led by administrative reformers in West Africa, and the Paris-based Negritude project.