The essays collected in this volume study the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant. In a context where identity was a question, an original conception of subjectivity appeared, as the end point rather than the origin of a process which was inseparably poetic and political. It entailed an aesthetics of dispersion or errance , rather than belonging. This volume thus questions the traditional teleological narrative of negritude as ¿renaissance¿ or ¿awakening¿. A careful look at the birth of different negritude movements shows the complexity of this history and explains Fanon¿s philosophical and political critique