Aimé Césaire
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- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Government and Politics, Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Authors, Writers, Novelists, Short Story Writers, African Americans, Blacks, Drama, Theater, Playwrights, Entertainment, Entertainers, Poetry, Poets, Race, Ethnicity, Racism
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, French History, Latin American History, African American History
Article abstract: Césaire contributed to the spiritual foundation of a number of Afro-American social, intellectual, and literary movements. His poetry and plays embody the idea of négritude, a word he created, which became the affirmative basis of the idea that one is black and proud of it. Although a renowned poet, playwright, and essayist, he has functioned as an active politician in the government of his native Martinique.
Early Life
Aimé Césaire was born in 1913 in Basse-Pointe, a town on the northeast coast of the West Indian island of...
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