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  Aimé Césaire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aimé Fernand David Césaire (born June 20, 1913) is a Martinican poet, author and politician.
In 1956, after the invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union, Aimé Césaire announced his resignation from the French Communist Party in a letter to party leader Maurice Thorez.
Aimé Césaire, bibliography, biography, and links (in French), "île en île", City University of New York, 1998-2004.
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In 1945 Cesaire began his political career when he was elected mayor of Fort-de-France and deputy in the Constituent Assembly on the French Communist Party ticket.
In 1956 Aime Cesaire resigned from the French Communist Party and two years later he began the "Parti Progressiste Martiniquais." During these years Cesaire attended two conferences for "Negro Writers and Artists" in Paris.
Cesaire is closely related to the word "negritude," which signifies the fl youth's attempt to maintain a positive racial identity (3).
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 Cesaire,Aime Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Aime Cesaire has been described by the Times Literary Supplement as likely to "figure alongside the Eliot-Pound-Yeats triumvirate that has dominated official poetic culture for more than fifty years." He was a cofounder and exponent of the concept of negritude and is a major spiritual, political, and literary figure.
Born in 1913 in Martinique, Aime Cesaire is acknowledged as one of the major poets of the twentieth century writing in French, and his celebrated long poem, Cashier d'un retour au pays natal (Notebook of a return to the native land), is his best known work.
Aime Cesaire, who was born in Martinique in 1913, is one of this century's major writers...
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Aime Cesaire was born in 1913 in Martinique in the French Caribbean.
Cesaire's poetry has been described as a style between "artistic 'modernism' and fl consciousness" (14).
Cesaire began to focus on drama with the use of the poem "Chiens." The poem contains different dialogues in it so Cesaire made it into a play.
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 MBEAW: Aimé Césaire
Arnold, James A. Modernism and Negritude: The Poetry and Poetics of Aimé Césaire (Cambridge MA: Harvard, 1981).
Literature and Ideology in Martinique: René Maran, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon (Buffalo: SUNY, 1972).
Aimé Césaire: Député à l'assemblée nationale, 1945-1993 (Paris: Harmattan, 1993).
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 AllRefer.com - AimE CEsaire (Miscellaneous French Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AimE CEsaire[emA´ sAzer´] Pronunciation Key, 1913–, West Indian poet and essayist who writes in French.
CEsaire voiced this idea through poetry, collected in such volumes as Les armes miraculeuses (1946) and Ferrements (1960) and in the essay Discours sur le colonialisme (1950, tr.
In addition to his literary output, which comprises poetry, plays, and historical essays on fl leaders, CEsaire has held a number of government positions in his native Martinique, including that of mayor of Fort-de-France.
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 Aime Cesaire - Search View - MSN Encarta
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Aimé Césaire, born in 1913, Martinican poet, playwright, and political leader, known as a founder of négritude, a movement among fl French-language writers that glorified traditional African culture and identity.
His writing was also influenced by surrealism, a French artistic movement that emphasized the role of the subconscious mind in the creative process.
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 Amazon.com: Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry): Books: Aime Cesaire,Annette Smith,Clayton ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty.
Aime Cesaire, from the Carribean island of Martinique, has written an incredibly powerful poem that focuses on the sufferings of Black people under colonialism.
But Cesaire also infuses the poem, in its final passages, with hope for a brighter day in the struggle against racism where the race will be "standing and free." Cesaire was co-creator (with Leopold Senghor) of the concept of Negritude, a literary and cultural movement that emphasized pride in African heritage and culture.
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 Amazon.com: A Tempest (TCG Translations): Books: Aime Cesaire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Aime Cesaire wrote this variation of The Tempest from an Afrocentric, Carribean perspective.
Cesaire's A TEMPEST wears its politics on its sleeve, and that can be grating even when its political message is agreeable with your own leanings.
I loved Aime Cesaire's Return to the Native Land which read from a library, the verses roll like thunder, and I wonder if it is in print anymore.
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 EXHIBITION "AROUND AIME CESAIRE" AT UNESCO {3 July 1997}
As a prelude to the tribute which UNESCO will pay in October to the poet, thinker and humanist Aimé Césaire from Martinique (French Antilles), the exhibition was organised at the initiative of the French Government.
Through a transfer of the force of poetic truths to the field of aesthetics and pedagogy, we are faced by veritable acts of faith at the cusp of insubordination and renaissance.
Seeking to situate the writings and deeds of the poet in the present, Mr Mayor said that Aimé Césaire "gives sense to UNESCO’s message on the culture of peace" and provides the "strength to look at the morrow" which must inspire all who value generosity and fraternity.
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 Monthly Review November 1999 Robin D.G. Kelley
Aimé Césaire's credentials as colonial critic are impeccable.
Aimé turned out to be a brilliant, precocious student and, at age eleven, was admitted to the Lycée Schoelcher in Fort-de-France.
Although the influence of surrealism on Aimé Césaire has been called into question recently, the question of his surrealism is usually posed in terms of André Breton's influence on Césaire.
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Cesaire's Notebook as palimpsest: the text before, during, and after World War II *.(Cesaire Aime)
The hybrid terrain of literary imagination: Maryse Conde's Black Witch of Salem, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hester Prynne, and Aime Cesaire's......
Speech delivered at the Aime Cesaire symposium, NYU, December 4-6, 2003.
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 LiP | Feature | Poetry & The Political Imagination: Aime Cesaire, Negritude, and the Applications of Surrealism
Although their father was well-educated and they shared the cultural sensibilities of the petite bourgeoisie, the Césaires nonetheless lived close to the edge of rural poverty.
Aimé turned out to be a brilliant, precocious student and at age 11 was admitted to the Lycée Schoelcher in Fort-de-France.
Upon graduation in 1931, he moved to Paris and enrolled in the Lycée Louis-le-Grand to prepare for the grueling entrance exams to the École Normale Supérieure (a high-level teachers' training college).
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 Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire
Aimé Césaire eloquently describes the brutal impact of capitalism and colonialism on both the colonizer and colonized, exposing the contradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of "progress" and "civilization" upon encountering the "savage," "uncultured," or "primitive."
He was elected mayor of Fort-de-France, Martinique, and for many years, served as representative of the island in the French National Assembly.
Césaire is the subject of a three-part documentary Aimé Césaire: un voix pour l'histoire (1994) by the internationally acclaimed director Euzhan Palcy, distributed by California Newsreel.
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 Aime Cesaire playwright - plays biography information
You will be shown all Plays in print by Aime Cesaire.
A witty and fiercely anti-colonialist revision of Shakespeare's island fling, Cesaire turns it into a brilliant assertion of fl identity.
Prospero is an exiled tyrant, while Caliban becomes a mutinous figure who has clear affinities with Malcolm X. Cesaire, major poet, Martinique politician, and coiner of the term "negritude" has presented not simply a new reading of The Tempest but an original play of astonishing power.
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 Find a Poet: the all-poetry encyclopedia. Submit a site!: Poets : C : Aime Cesaire
Aime Cesaire : The Collected Poetry by Aime Cesaire - Aime Cesaire : The Collected Poetry by Aime Cesaire, at amazon.com
Poems of Aimé Césaire (full-text, French) - Poems of Aimé Césaire (full-text, French)
Poetry of Aime Cesaire (full-text, English) - Poetry of Aime Cesaire (full-text, English translation)
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 Aime Cesaire
Eshleman and Smith are in fact responsible for all of the current good translations of Aime Cesaire into English, and their championing of Cesaire among other writers is to be commended.
cesaire's assimilation and forwarding of the new aesthetic inaugurated by mallarme is
'cesaire's assimilation and forwarding of the new aesthetic inaugurated by mallarme is quite extraordinary.
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 The Legacy of Aimé Césaire: Reflections on his 90th Anniversary International Colloquium
Aimé Césaire, who has been termed the father of African literature, is 90 this year.
Born in Guadeloupe, Jacques Martial is well known in France as a television and stage actor.
Presented in conjunction with the conference on Aimé Césaire organized by the Institute of African-American Affairs at New York University, and in collaboration with the Martinique Promotion Bureau.
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The liberating power of words an interview with poet Aime Cesaire in UNESCO Courier, May, 1997 by Annick Thebia Melsan
Addicted to race: Performativity, agency, and Cesaire's A tempest, in College Literature, Spring 1998 by Scheie, Timothy
http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featkelley_116.shtml Article about the surrealist poet's role in the anticolonial and Pan-African movements, "Poetry and the Political Imagination: Aime Cesaire, Negritude, and the Applications of Surrealism," by Professor Robin D.G. Kelley in Lip Magazine, 7/9/01.
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Quote from Joyce: "I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race." This is perhaps the best summary of what Cesaire does.
In the travel brochures, Martinique is depicted as having blue waters white sands, and the atmosphere of paradise.
In a famous line, the poet pledges to use his mouth.
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 The Academy of American Poets - Aimé Césaire
The Academy of American Poets - Aimé Césaire
Aimé Césaire was born June 25, 1913, in Basse-Pointe, a small town on the northeast coast of Martinique in the French Caribbean.
His books of poetry include Aimé Césaire: The Collected Poetry (University of California Press, 1983); Putting in Fetters (1960); Lost Bodies (1950), with illustrations by Pablo Picasso; Decapitated Sun (1948); Miraculous Arms (1946); and Notebook of a Return to the Homeland (1939).
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 MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: Aimé Césaire: A Voice for History
MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: Aimé Césaire: A Voice for History
With the voices of Perette Pradier, Pascal Nzonzi, Bachir Touré, Sanvi Panou and Katy Vail.
New Search More info on Aimé Césaire: A Voice for History at The Internet Movie Database
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 Aime Cesaire: A Voice For History Movie Review - Aime Cesaire: A Voice For History Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
Aime Cesaire: A Voice For History Movie Review - Aime Cesaire: A Voice For History Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
In the Paris of 1930, Cesaire, Senghor, and Damas developed the concept of negritude, a worldwide vindication of African values.
Clark and Dodson of the Schomburg Center discuss the profound impact of fl American authors of the Harlem Renaissance as well as jazz on this primarily French movement.
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 Bloodaxe Books: Author Page > Aime Cesaire
Aimé Césaire was born in 1913 in Basse-Pointe, a village on the north coast of Martinique, a former French colony in the Caribbean (now an overseas département of France).
His Notebook of a Return to My Native Land is the foundation stone of francophone Black literature: it is here that the word Negritude appeared for the Þrst time.
The work of Aime Cesaire falls into the following categories:
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 California Newsreel - AIME CESAIRE: UNE VOIX POUR L'HISTOIRE
California Newsreel - AIME CESAIRE: UNE VOIX POUR L'HISTOIRE
A magnificent symphony in which history and politics, landscape and literature, come together."
"Aimé Césaire is one of the most important figures in the history of Black Liberation...Euzhan Palcy, the first major fl woman director, has applied her unique signature to produce this essential film."
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