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Ligne Bleu Clair (for Simone Yoyotte)

from Avant (​+​2 Digital Booklets) by Nas Hedron

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Simone Yoyotte (Martinique, circa 1910-1933).

Yoyotte was a poet and political writer from Martinique, and the first woman of African heritage to take part in surrealism, but very little is known about her. She was the sole woman in the Legitime Defense (“Self-Defense”) group formed in 1932 by Martiniquan students in Paris, and she published poems in the group’s journal—a publication that Léon Damas, one of the founders of the Négritude literary movement, called “the most insurrectional document ever signed by people of color.” She died in Paris aged just twenty-three.

There is no Wikipedia page for Yoyotte, but the few details known about her, and several translations of her work, appear in the excellent book on Black surrealism, "Black, Brown, and Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora" by Franklin Rosemont and Robin D.G. Kelley and in the indispensable "Surrealist Women: An International Anthology" by Penelope Rosemont. There is also reference to her in a fictional setting in China Miéville’s novel "The Last Days of New Paris."

This track is named for her prose poem “Ligne bleu clair dans un épisode de commande, j’ai troué le drapeau de la République,” which appears in an English translation titled “Pale Blue Line in a Forced Episode,” in Surrealist Women.

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from Avant (​+​2 Digital Booklets), released September 28, 2018

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