Christian Filostrat
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Christian Filostrat (born 1945) is an American diplomat recipient of the 1994 Presidential Award and a writer[1], author of The Beggars’ Pursuit [2], a novel about political relations between the United States and the Democratic Republic of Congo, which includes the founders of Negritude and their activities in Paris, circa 1936. The Gospel of Thomas [3], his second novel, is about the American intervention in a papal election where an African cardinal is in the running. He is also the author of Negritude Agonistes, Assimilation Against Nationalism in the French-Speaking Caribbean and Guyana [4].
Christian Filostrat is a researcher in the field of politics and French Caribbean literature and the oral tradition and the literature of Africa. As part of his research, he discussed the struggles (agonistes) of Negritude with the founders, Leopold S. Senghor, Aimé Césaire and Léon Damas with whom he worked on Damas's last collection of poems, Mine de Riens.
Filostrat is the author of Racial Consciousness and the Social Revolution of Aimé Césaire[5] and at the request of President Senghor lectured on the subject at the University of the Mutants on Goree Island in Senegal in 1980. In Negritude Agonistes, Assimilation Against Nationalism in the French-Speaking Caribbean and Guyana Filostrat introduces the No. 3 (May-June 1935) of L'Etudiant Noir, Journal Mensuel de l'Association des Étudiants Martiniquais en France, The Black Student, Monthly Journal of the Martiniquan Student Association in France in which Aimé Césaire forged the expression and defined the concept of Negritude [6].
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)
- The Beggars'Pursuit, 2007 (ISBN 0977090477)
- Negritude Agonistes, Assimilation Against Nationalism in the French-Speaking Caribbean and Guyana 2008 (ISBN 0981893929)
Notes and References
1. ^ Christian Filostrat [archive], on the site ahlpub.com
2. ^ The Beggars' Pursuit books.google.com/books?isbn=0977090450
3 ^ The Gospel of Thomas books.google.com/books?isbn=0983115125
4 ^ Negritude Agonistes, Assimilation Against Nationalism in the ... - Page 152 - Google Books Result books.google.com/books?isbn=0981893929
5 ^ The Western journal of black studies - Volumes 5-6 - Page 2 books.google.com/books?id=e1FAAQAAIAAJ
6. ^ Christopher l. miller The (Revised) Birth of Negritude: Communist Revolution and “the Immanent Negro” in 1935 PMLA, Vol. 125, No. 3, May 2010
- The French review - Volume 53, Issues 1-3 - Page 178 books.google.com/books?id=vrk4AAAAIAAJ