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The United Nations and its democratization became the proxi­mate goals of NAM, which had therefore abjured any attempt to over­throw, or even jujitsu, both superpowers.

because his was not an involuted na­tionalism, he translated work from French and Russian letters

the new nation had to protect the canon from chauvinism. It had to promote the idea of the composite cul­ ture or an inherent tendency toward syncretism

[...] The multinational perspective questioned the racist claim that the darker nations could only be primordial, that blood and custom reduced the imagination of certain people. They could only be tied to kin and co-believer, not to a republican nationalism whose locus was both anticolonial and po…

Cesaire moved away from the antinomic quality of this analysis, even if only partially