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Transitions :: Aimé Césaire

Aimé Césaire just passed away. Le Monde's obit is ici.

from the wikipedia:

Négritude is a literary and political movement developed in the 1930s by a group that included the future Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor, Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, and the Guianan Léon Damas. The Négritude writers found solidarity in a common black identity as a rejection of French colonial racism. They believed that the shared black heritage of members of the African diaspora was the best tool in fighting against French political and intellectual hegemony and domination.

His collected writings are as follows:

  • Poésie

    • Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (1939)
    • Les armes miraculeuses (1946)
    • Soleil cou coupé (1948)
    • Corps perdu (1950)
    • Ferrements (1960)
    • Cadastre (1961)
    • Moi Laminaire (1982)
    • La poésie (1994)

  • Théâtre

    • Et les chiens se taisaient (1958)
    • La tragédie du roi Christophe (1963)
    • Une saison au Congo (1966)
    • Une tempête (1969)

  • Essais

    • Victor Schoelcher et l'abolition de l'esclavage (1948)
    • Discours sur le colonialisme (1950)
    • Toussaint Louverture. La Révolution française et le problème colonial (1961) (d'après AFP)

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