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| − | + | Christian Filostrat (born 1945) is an American writer1 and diplomat, author of The Beggars'Pursuit, a political novel about the relationship between the United States and the Democratic Republic of Congo, which includes the promoters of negritude and their activities in Paris, circa 1936. The Gospel of Thomas, his second novel, is about the American intervention in a papal election in which a Congolese cardinal is a candidate. | |
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| − | + | Christian Filostrat is also a researcher in the field of politics and Caribbean French literature and the oral tradition and literature of Africa. As part of his research, he worked with the initiators of negritude, Leopold S. Senghor, Aimé Césaire and Léon Damas. | |
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| − | + | Filostrat is the author of Racial Consciousness and the Social Revolution of Aimé Césaire and at the request of President Senghor gave a lecture on the subject at the l'Université des Mutants on Goree Island in Senegal in 1980. In Negritude Agonistes, Assimilation Against Nationalism in the French-Speaking Caribbean and Guyane, Filostrat introduced No. 3 (May-June 1935) of L'Etudiant Noir, Journal Mensuel de l'Association des Étudiants Martiniquais en France in which Aimé Césaire forged the expression and defined the concept of Negritude. | |
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| − | + | Works | |
| − | + | • The Beggars'Pursuit, 2007 (ISBN 0977090477) | |
| − | + | • Negritude Agonistes, Assimilation Against Nationalism in the French-Speaking Caribbean and Guyane, 2008 (ISBN 0981893929) | |
| + | • The Gospel of Thomas, 2011 (ISBN 0983115125) | ||
| − | + | Notes and references | |
| − | + | ↑ 1 in http://www.ahlpub.com/Christian_Filostrat.html [archive] | |
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| − | + | External links | |
| − | + | • Christopher l. miller The (Revised) Birth of Negritude: Communist Revolution and “the Immanent Negro” in 1935 PMLA, Vol. 125, No. 3, May 2010 | |
| − | + | • http://wwww.negritudeagonistesbook.com | |
| − | + | • http://wwww.thegospeloftomas.com | |
| − | + | • http://www.leondamas-mine-de-rien.com | |
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Revision as of 21:28, 24 December 2012
Christian Filostrat (born 1945) is an American writer1 and diplomat, author of The Beggars'Pursuit, a political novel about the relationship between the United States and the Democratic Republic of Congo, which includes the promoters of negritude and their activities in Paris, circa 1936. The Gospel of Thomas, his second novel, is about the American intervention in a papal election in which a Congolese cardinal is a candidate.
Christian Filostrat is also a researcher in the field of politics and Caribbean French literature and the oral tradition and literature of Africa. As part of his research, he worked with the initiators of negritude, Leopold S. Senghor, Aimé Césaire and Léon Damas.
Filostrat is the author of Racial Consciousness and the Social Revolution of Aimé Césaire and at the request of President Senghor gave a lecture on the subject at the l'Université des Mutants on Goree Island in Senegal in 1980. In Negritude Agonistes, Assimilation Against Nationalism in the French-Speaking Caribbean and Guyane, Filostrat introduced No. 3 (May-June 1935) of L'Etudiant Noir, Journal Mensuel de l'Association des Étudiants Martiniquais en France in which Aimé Césaire forged the expression and defined the concept of Negritude.
Works
• The Beggars'Pursuit, 2007 (ISBN 0977090477)
• Negritude Agonistes, Assimilation Against Nationalism in the French-Speaking Caribbean and Guyane, 2008 (ISBN 0981893929)
• The Gospel of Thomas, 2011 (ISBN 0983115125)
Notes and references ↑ 1 in http://www.ahlpub.com/Christian_Filostrat.html [archive]
External links • Christopher l. miller The (Revised) Birth of Negritude: Communist Revolution and “the Immanent Negro” in 1935 PMLA, Vol. 125, No. 3, May 2010 • http://wwww.negritudeagonistesbook.com • http://wwww.thegospeloftomas.com • http://www.leondamas-mine-de-rien.com