Césaire, Aimé | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

BIOGRAPHY

Davis, Gregson. Aimé Césaire, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, 208 p.

Biographical and critical study.

CRITICISM

Arnold, A. James. “Césaire and Shakespeare: Two Tempests.” Comparative Literature 30, no. 3 (summer 1978): 236-48.

Explores the relationship of Shakespeare's The Tempest to Césaire's A Tempest.

Charney, Maurice. “Caribbean Shakespeare: Aimé Césaire's Une tempête.Journal of Theatre and Drama 4 (1998): 73-80.

Maintains that in A Tempest Césaire's “abundant colonial discourse and his eloquent expressions of negritude are meant to counter the European sentiments in Shakespeare's play.”

Cohn, Ruby. “Black Power on Stage: Emperor Jones and King Christophe.Yale French Studies 46 (1971): 41-7.

Finds parallels between Eugene O'Neill's Emperor...

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