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Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aimé Césaire (Martinique) and Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promoted self-determination without state sovereignty. As politicians, public intellectuals, and poets they struggled to transform imperial France into a democratic federation, with former colonies as autonomous members of a transcontinental polity. In so doing, they revitalized past but unrealized political projects and anticipated impossible futures by acting as if they had already arrived. Refusing to reduce colonial emancipation to national independence, they regarded decolonization as an opportunity to remake the world, reconcile peoples, and realize humanity’s potential. Emphasizing the link between politics and aesthetics, Gary Wilder reads Césaire and Senghor as pragmatic utopians, situated humanists, and concrete cosmopolitans whose postwar insights can illuminate current debates about self-management, postnational politics, and planetary solidarity. Freedom Time invites scholars to decolonize intellectual history and globalize critical theory, to analyze the temporal dimensions of political life, and to question the territorialist assumptions of contemporary historiography.

Social change --- Colonisation. Decolonisation --- France --- Africa --- Senghor, Léopold Sédar, --- Césaire, Aimé, --- --Colonie --- --Afrique --- --États-Unis --- --XXe s., --- Négritude, mouvement littéraire --- --#SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:327.4H21 --- #SBIB:328H419 --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Kolonisatie / dekolonisatie / post-kolonisatie --- Instellingen en beleid: andere Afrikaanse landen --- #SBIB:39A73 --- --Social change --- Colonie --- XXe s., 1901-2000 --- Senghor, Léopold Sédar, 1906-2001 --- Césaire, Aimé, 1913-2008 --- Afrique --- États-Unis --- Negritude (Literary movement) --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism --- Césaire, Aimé. --- Senghor, Léopold Sédar, --- Senghor, Léopold Sédar --- Sengor, Leopold Sedar, --- Senghor, L. S. --- Sennkor, Leopolnt Sentar, --- Senghor, Léopolod Sédar, --- סנגור, ליאופולד סידאר --- סנגור, ליאופולד ס. --- Sédar Segnhor, Léopold --- Césaire, Aimé --- Césaire, A. --- Bro-C'hall --- Fa-kuo --- Fa-lan-hsi --- Faguo --- Falanxi --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- Faransā --- Farānsah --- França --- Francia (Republic) --- Francija --- Francja --- Francland --- Francuska --- Franis --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Frankrig --- Frankrijk --- Frankrike --- Frankryk --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Franse Republiek --- Frant︠s︡ --- Frant︠s︡ Uls --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Franza --- French Republic --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- Frenska republika --- Furansu --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Gallia --- Gallia (Republic) --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- Hyãsia --- Parancis --- Peurancih --- Phransiya --- Pransiya --- Pransya --- Prantsusmaa --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Ranska --- República Francesa --- Republica Franzesa --- Republika Francuska --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- Republikang Pranses --- République française --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Γαλλία --- Франц --- Франц Улс --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Францыя --- Франция --- Френска република --- פראנקרייך --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- فرانسه --- فرنسا --- フランス --- フランス共和国 --- 法国 --- 法蘭西 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- 프랑스 --- France (Provisional government, 1944-1946) --- Colonies