Daniel Maximin

Poet, Novelist, and Essayist

Born in Guadeloupe, Daniel Maximin was initially a teacher of Literature and Anthropology. From 1982 to 1989, he was a producer-host of Francophone programs at Radio-France and France-Culture. He then served as the Director of Cultural Affairs of Guadeloupe from 1989 to 1997. In 1998, he was appointed Commissioner for the National Celebration of the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in 1848. From 2000 to 2004, he was appointed to the Ministry of National Education as an Advisor.

Employability:: Guest lecturer
Languages:: French
Categories:: Geopolitics

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About Daniel Maximin

Born in Guadeloupe, Daniel Maximin was initially a teacher of Literature and Anthropology.

From 1982 to 1989, he was a producer-host of Francophone programs at Radio-France and France-Culture. He then served as the Director of Cultural Affairs of Guadeloupe from 1989 to 1997. In 1998, he was appointed Commissioner for the National Celebration of the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in 1848. From 2000 to 2004, he was appointed to the Ministry of National Education as an Advisor to the Mission for Arts and Culture in Schools. In 2006, he was the Literary Commissioner for the Francophone Festival in France: Francophonies. Finally, he was appointed in January 2010 as the General Commissioner of “2011, The Year of the Overseas Territories”.

Daniel Maximin regularly speaks as a lecturer at various institutions, universities, and cultural centers in France and abroad (USA, Canada, Italy, Belgium, Spain, England, Germany, Sweden, Ukraine, Senegal, Nigeria, Cuba, Brazil..)

He is the author of three novels: L’isolé soleil (1981), Soufrières (1987), and L’île et une nuit (1996), published by Éditions du Seuil; an autobiographical narrative: Tu c’est l’enfance (Éd.Gallimard, 2004. Grand prix Maurice Genevoix of the Académie Française), and an essay: Les fruits du cyclone, a geopoetics of the Caribbean (Éd.du Seuil, 2007). He published with photographer Anne Chopin: La Guadeloupe vue du ciel (HC Éditions, 2008) as well as a collection of poems: L’invention des désirades (Seuil, 2009). His two latest publications are: Antilles secrètes et insolites (Éd.Glénat, 2011) and Césaire et Lam, insolites bâtisseurs (H.C éditions, 2011).

Topics

1. The Antilles: history, geopolitics, culture and society
2. Overseas territories in international relations
3. The cultures and philosophies of decolonisation in the third world
4. Post-colonialism: culture and ideology
5. The genesis of French identity since the Revolution
6. France and the world, the Francophonie
7. Identities and citizenship
8. Cultural diversity, ethnic relations, the identity crisis between diversity and communitarianism
9. Soft power, geopolitics of culture, influence diplomacy
10. Literatures and cultures of the Francophone world, Africa, the Caribbean
11. Some great literary figures: Aimé Césaire, Senghor, Damas...
12. Geo-poetics of contemporary cultures, the dialogue of cultures Europe/Americas/Africas
13. Aesthetic and plastic representation, contemporary poetry and painting (Césaire, Picasso and Lam)
14. Black music of America, music of the Caribbean
15. Artistic and cultural education as a vector of educational success