Subject Aimé Césaire (Martinican Poet, Doctorate)

Syllabus of the Online Subject: Aimé Césaire (Poet, Martinique).

1. Aimé Césaire (Martinican poet)
2. The concept of blackness of Aimé Césaire

Example of the Online Subject: Aimé Césaire (Poet, Martinique)

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Description of the Online Subject: Aimé Fernand David Césaire

The Martinican Poet, Author and Politician Aimé Fernand David Césaire (1913 - 2008) is one of the leaders and founders of the “Negritude Movement.” In his works; he criticised the “humanist” elucidation of colonialism.

“Nobody colonises inoffensively, those civilisations justifying colonisation is an Ill Civilisation” Aimé Césaire

1. Place of birth of Aimé Césaire: Basse-Pointe (Martinique, the Caribbean)
2. Founder of the Negritude Movement
3. Founder of “Tropiques” (literary review) with his wife (Suzanne Roussi)

Main topics of the work of Aimé Césaire:

1. “Négritude” (Léon Damas and Leopold Sédar Senghor)
2. Effects of Colonialism
3. For Aimé Césaire, the colonialism was a Western system based on the economic exploitation (Discourse on Colonialism)
4. For him, colonialism, racism or barbarism is the same

Bibliography of Aimé Césaire:

1. Discourse on Colonialism
2. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
3. Miraculous weapons
4. Tragedy of King Christophe
5. A Season in the Congo
6. Toussaint Louverture: The French Revolution and the colonial problem

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