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Joseph Anténor Firmin was a Haitian diplomat and scholar, Pan-Africanist, and an early participant in the birth of French anthropology. After long being neglected, Firmin’s articulations of Pan-Africanism in the Caribbean environment are finally receiving their due. In active correspondence with other thinkers of the African diaspora, Firmin was an early proponent of developing a Caribbean confederacy. Although his seminal anthropological study, The Equality of Human Races: Positivist Anthropology (1885), has received the most scholarly attention to date, his contextualization of Haiti on the world stage, developed in Mr. Roosevelt, President of the United States, and the Republic of Haiti (Mr. Roosevelt, président des États-Unis et la République d’Haïti, 1905) remains understudied to this day. Firmin situates his nation in the larger North American landscape of U.S. imperialism and Haiti’s longstanding ties to the French Republic to examine how to most rationally promote Haitian prosperity. His notions of political determination for African diasporic nations appear early in the timeline of the fields of anthropology and sociology. This article will explore Firmin’s contributions to history, anthropology, and self-determination of nations.
Keywords: Firmin, Francophone, race, self-governance, body politics, Caribbean
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The article continues with the post entitled "Poetic memory or the use of topos "ENFANT ABANDONNE" in Milan Kundera’s The unbearable lightness of being " published on the SATOR research notebook by Madeleine Jeay, in which she shows that Kundera works a topical situation corresponding to a number of topoi listed in SATORBASE as ADOPTER ENFANT TROUVE, DESOBEIR ORDRE DE TROUVER ENFANT, ENLEVER SECRETEMENT ENFANT etc. The article continues this reflection and focusses on the animal topic in the Shah Nameh of Ferdousi, reflecting on the role of the Simorgh (this mythical bird that plays an essential role in Persian culture and that is found in the Manteq-et-their (The dialogue of the birds) of Farid eddine Attar and in the metaphysical and philosophical texts of Avicenna and Sohravardi. In the Shah Nameh the Simorgh rescues Zal, abandoned as a child by his father, King Sam, and raises him until the latter, now an adult, finds his father who grants him the royal filiation. And the child is fed at night by a gazelle. Such topical configurations that could be called ANIMAL SAVES CHILD ABANDONS are very widespread. We question the original scene of a close relationship between human sovereignty and animal sovereignty, the part of sovereignty being equally distributed between man and animal which is here the inseparable adjuvant. The methodological question of topical naming is also addressed.
Keywords: ENFANT ABANDONNE, Abandoned child, Animal Animal saves abandoned child, ANIMAL SAUVE ENFANT ABANDONNE, SHAH NAMEH, Shah Nameh, Topical designation, DENOMINATION TOPIQUE, MOTIFS ET TOPOI, Motives and topoï