Aimé Césaire (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Aimé Fernand Césaire (say-zehr), once regarded as the most prominent poet of the Caribbean world, was a cofounder (with Léopold Senghor and Léon Damas) of the influential négritude movement, which sought to restore the cultural identity and dignity of colonized Africans in the 1950’s. The second of six children, Aimé Césaire was the son of Fernand Césaire, who held a minor bureaucratic post as a tax inspector, and Marie Hermine, a dressmaker.
While his family’s standard of living was close to that of the rural poor, the level of education of both his father...
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