Categories | Literary magazine |
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Frequency | Quarterly |
Publisher | Aimé Césaire, Suzanne Césaire, René Ménil |
First issue | 1941 |
Final issue | 1945 |
Language | French |
Tropiques was a quarterly literary magazine published in Martinique from 1941 to 1945. It was founded by Aimé Césaire, Suzanne Césaire, and other Martinican intellectuals of the era, who contributed poetry, essays, and fiction to the magazine. While resisting the Vichy-supported government that ruled Martinique at the time, the writers commented on colonialism, surrealism, and other topics.[1] André Breton, the French leader of surrealism, contributed to the magazine and helped turn it into a leading voice of surrealism in the Caribbean.