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Like the writers Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, and Édouard Glissant before her, Cédrine Scheidig is, to borrow the words of Glissant’s American translator, a distinguished theorist of “Caribbean self-formation.” Born in 1994 in the Seine-Saint-Denis su

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