Aimé Césaire
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Article abstract: Césaire wrote poems, plays, and essays describing the struggles he faced as a black Martinican educated in a Western, French colonial system. He called colonialism morally and spiritually indefensible and blamed it for what he saw as the decline of civilization in the West.
Early Life
Aimé Fernand Césaire was born in 1913 in Basse-Pointe, a town on the northeast coast of the West Indian island of Martinique. Although his family was poor, they were not from the impoverished class of illiterate farmworkers that made up the majority of...
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