Product Overview
A new and complete English translationThe Great Camouflage translates and assembles in one volume the seven articles Suzanne Csaire wrote for the cultural journal Tropiques. Csaire engages anthropology, esthetics, surrealism, history, and poetry as she grapples with questions of power and deception, self-deception, the economic slipknot of a post-slavery debt system, identity and inauthenticity, bad faith, psychological and affective aberration, and cultural zombification. All are caught in the web of "the great camouflage." The collection provides a multifaceted portrait of Csaire, and includes short writings from others who wrote passionately about her, including Andr Breton, Andr Masson, Ren Mnil, Daniel Maximin, and her husband Aim Csaire and daughter, Ina Csaire.Publication of this book is funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
