Aimé Césaire

Aimé Fernand David Césaire ( born June 26, 1913 in Basse- Pointe, Martinique, † April 17, 2008 in Fort- de -France ) was a French writer and politician - afrokaribisch. He founded together with Leopold Sedar Senghor and Léon Damas - Gontran the concept of negritude.

Life and work

Césaire was the author of numerous books of poetry and essays - including the never -held, but momentous as text talk about colonialism - as well as several plays. At the same time he was the most important politicians of Martinique in the twentieth century. In 1945 he was elected a deputy of the Communist Party of France. One of his first political success was the collection of the department of Martinique ( 1946). In 1956 he left the Communists, two years later, his own political party, the Parti progressiste martiniquais (PPM ) to start; In 1978 he joined the Socialists. In 1945 he became mayor of Fort-de -France, and remained there until 2001. Until 1993 he was a member of the French National Assembly.

Quotes

His personal opinion on colonialism and imperialism:

His vision of the integration of all peoples and cultures:

About the Holocaust:

Bibliography

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• Poems, Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1987, ISBN 3-446-13920-6
• Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (1939 ) dt back to the country of birth (Frankfurt / Main: Insel Verlag 1962), Notes of a return, Munich, Carl Hanser Verlag, 1954, in Black Orpheus, records of a return to the land of birth in Each island is a widow
• Les poor miraculeuses (1946 )
• Soleil cou coupé ( 1947)
• Corps perdu (1950 )
• Ferrements (1960 )
• Cadastre (1961 )
• Moi, laminaire (1982 )
• Sun daggers. Poignards du Soleil, Heidelberg: Wolfgang Rothe Publisher 1956
• Each island is a widow, East Berlin: Verlag Volk und Welt, 1989, ISBN 3-353-00563-3
• La poésie, Paris: Éditions du Seuil 1994, ISBN 2-02-021232-3

Theater

• La Tragédie du roi Christophe ( 1963)
• Une saison au Congo (1966 )
• Une tempête ( by William Shakespeare) (1969 )
• Et les chiens se taisaient

Essays

• Discours sur le colonialisme (1950/1955), dt About colonialism, Berlin ( Wagenbach ) 1968, Eng. Discourse on Colonialism, Monthly Review Press 2001, ISBN 1-58367-025-4
• Lettre à Maurice Thorez, Présence Africaine, Paris 1956
• Discourse on Negritude (1987 )