Download or read book Shaping and Reshaping the Caribbean written by Martin Munro and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I then compare Cesaire's Caribbean "shape" to that of Rene Depestre, and a quite different model emerges. I find that Africa is relatively absent in Depestre's work: Europe is not presented as a threat; and that Depestre, unlike Cesaire, sees, in the Caribbean, an energy and a creativity brought about by the historical fusion of disparate cultures. I consider how the reality of Depestre's long exile from the Caribbean has affected his views of the islands.