LÉON-GONTRAN DAMAS Les détours vers la Cité Neuve

This critical reading of Léon-Gontran Damas's five poem collections illustrates the resilient force of the poet's words. It includes a description of his posthumous and extremely rare book "Dernière escale". By recovering its Guyanese roots, this poetry is finally able to reject the painful situation of dominated people and to build a world upside down, where the former dominant has no more hold on the new free man.