Suzanne Cesaire and the Tropiques-poetics of the morne: from Tropiques to the intangible heritage of knots of memory

This article argues that a specific memorial Caribbean geography, the morne (a rounded steep hill in the Caribbean) which bears witness to the violence of slavery, has markedly defined the conceptual frameworks that Suzanne Cesaire elaborated in the avant-garde and liberation journal, Tropiques (1941-1945). It also contends that the morne continues to determine the evolution and the specificity of contemporary literatures and cultural theories that problematize practices of resistance and existence in Global South communities. These cultural theories that pertain to the field of postcolonial ecology, have carved out a mentality that spreads to an intangible heritage globality. Thus, by exploring Suzanne Cesaire s ecopoetics of the morne, and how it is disseminated into the multidirectional dimension of UNESCO s inscription of Le Morne in Mauritius, and the Blue and John Crow Mountains in Jamaica on its World Heritage List, this study continues to map out the interdisciplinarity of postcolonial studies, and emphasizes why it is important today to reread Tropiques, and to reconsider the impact of Suzanne Cesaire, the theorist of the journal.