Aime Cesaire

Biographic Data

ID133908
NAMEAime Cesaire
GIVEN NAMESAime
FAMILY NAMECesaire
SIGNATURECESAIRE A
AFFILIATIONSMusée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS50
TOTAL CITATIONS77
AUTHOR COUNT50
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1955
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • It Is Through Poetry That One Copes With Solitude: An Interview with Aimé Césaire

    Charles Henry Rowell, Aime CesaireARTICLECallaloo2026

  • Discourse on Colonialism

    Aime CesaireBOOKDiscourse on Colonialism2014

    Aime Cesaire's poetics were backed by a rigorous analysis of colonialism and nowhere did he state this more fully than here in his Discourse on Colonialism which must be viewed as a founding text for post-colonial criticism. This text, which was written in the 1950s, places the blame for Western civilization firmly on the shoulders of the European bourgeoisie. The two major problems he sees as being the proletariat and the colonial problem and th…

  • État des lieux

    Aime CesaireARTICLEPrésence Africaine2014

  • Le message de Péguy

    Aime CesaireARTICLELes Temps Modernes2013Cited by: 1

  • Nègreries: Jeunesse Noire Et Assimilation

    Aime CesaireARTICLELes Temps Modernes2013Cited by: 2

  • Nègreries: Conscience Raciale Et Révolution Sociale

    Aime CesaireARTICLELes Temps Modernes2013Cited by: 4

  • La pensée politique de Sékou Touré

    Aime CesaireARTICLEPrésence Africaine2012Cited by: 1

  • Culture and Colonization

    Aime CesaireARTICLESocial Text2010Cited by: 9

    “Culture and Colonization,” which has long been unavailable in English translation, was Aimé Césaire's speech at Le Premier Congrès International des Ecrivains et Artistes Noirs, hosted by the journal Présence africaine in Paris in September 1956. The congress is one of the pivotal events of the Pan-African movement, bringing together artists and intellectuals from around the African diaspora, including Alioune Diop, Jacques Rabemananjara, Léopol…

  • Letter to Maurice Thorez

    Aime CesaireARTICLESocial Text2010Cited by: 18

    Aimé Césaire's Lettre à Maurice Thorez , which appears here in a new translation by Chike Jeffers, is the Martinican poet, playwright, theorist, and politician's letter of resignation from the French Communist Party (PCF). He first explains his resignation by making reference to the revelations concerning Stalin in Khrushchev's famous “Secret Speech” and to the PCF's reluctance to deStalinize. He soon turns, however, to considerations related to …

  • Discours prononcé par Aimé Césaire à Dakar le 6 avril 1966: Dans le cadre du Colloque sur l’art dans la vie du peuple qui marqua l’ouverture du Premier Festival mondial des arts nègres (30 mars - 21 a…

    Discours Prononcé Par, Aime CesaireARTICLEGradhiva2009

    Monsieur le Président, Mesdames, Messieurs, Je voudrais d’abord vous faire part des hésitations que j’ai eues à prendre la parole dans ce colloque. Je ne suis à aucun degré un homme de science, à aucun degré un expert, et j’ai conscience que dans une telle assemblée, j’ai beaucoup plus à apprendre qu’à enseigner. Aussi bien vous demanderai-je de ne voir dans cette intervention que la manifestation du désir que j’ai à vous dire à quel point j’ai é…

  • From Notebook of a Return to the Native Land

    Aime CesaireARTICLECallaloo2008Cited by: 1

    from Notebook of a Return to the Native Land* Aimé Césaire At the end of daybreak... Beat it, I said to him, you cop, you lousy pig, beat it, I detest the flunkies of order and the cockchafers of hope. Beat it, evil grigri, you bedbug of a petty monk. Then I turned toward paradises lost for him and his kin, calmer than the face of a woman telling lies, and there, rocked by the flux of a never exhausted thought I nourished the wind, I unlaced the …

  • Sur la poésie nationale

    Aime CesaireARTICLEPrésence Africaine2002Cited by: 1

  • The Automatic Crystal

    Aime Cesaire, Clayton Eshleman et al.ARTICLECallaloo2001

    Callaloo - Volume 24, Number 3, Summer 2001

  • Wifredo Lam

    Aime Cesaire, Clayton Eshleman et al.ARTICLECallaloo2001

    Aimé Césaire, a reknowned politician, scholar and poet, was born in 1913 in Martinique. He is perhaps best known for Return to My Native Land (1939), Discourse on Colonialism (1955), and A Tempest (1968), an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Many of his poems are reprinted in Aimé Césaire: Collected Works. With Léopold Senghor, he founded Negritude, an influential movement to restore the cultural identity of black Africans, and began the j…

  • Your Portrait

    Aime Cesaire, Clayton Eshleman et al.ARTICLECallaloo2001

  • Discourse on colonialism . A poetics of anticolonialism

    Aime Cesaire, R D G Kelley et al.BOOKDiscourse on colonialism2000

    Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in development of third world consciousness--a process in which [he] played a prominent role. --Library Journal This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced generation of scholars and activists at forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later, when published for first time in English, Discourse on Colonialism inspi…

  • Nicolás Guillén. Popular Poet of the Caribbean

    Ramón Layera, Ian Isidore Smart et al.ARTICLEHispania1992

  • The Poet's Africa: Africanness in the Poetry of Nicolas Guillén and Aimé Césaire

    Amboise Kom, Josaphat B Kubayanda et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…1992

    Preface The Emergence of Caribbean Rhetorical Discourse on Africa Inventing the Primitive African Calling into Question the Universals of History The Double Proletarian: Race and the Caribbean Social Space Language as (De)Sign of Cultural Roots and Centralized Power Artistic Cross-Fertilization or Polyrhythmic Structures Conclusion: Keeping Alive the Discourse on Africa Selected Bibliography Index

  • [C'est l'obligé Passage….]/[It Is The Necessary Passage….]

    Aime Cesaire, Lee HildrethARTICLECallaloo1989

  • References/References

    Aime Cesaire, Lee HildrethARTICLECallaloo1989

  • Supreme Masque/Supreme Mask

    Aime Cesaire, Lee HildrethARTICLECallaloo1989

  • A Festival of Plays

    Renée Larrier, Alex Gro et al.ARTICLECallaloo1989

  • Engagement and the Language of the Subject in the Poetry of Aimé Césaire

    Jonathan Ngate, Ronnie Scharfman et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…1989

  • Addis-Abeba 1963

    Aime CesaireARTICLEPrésence Africaine1988

  • Aimé Césaire, the collected poetry

    Aime CesaireBOOKCollected Poetry1983

    This edition, containing an extensive introduction, notes, the French original, and a new translation of Césaire's poetry—the complex and challenging later works as well as the famous Notebook—will remain the definitive Césaire in English.