biography
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Césaire, Aimé (Fernand)
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pronunciation:
[sayzair]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1913– )
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| biography:
| Poet, novelist, and Martinique politician, born in Basse-Pointe, Martinique. He studied there and in Paris, returning to Martinique as a teacher. The influential Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (1947, Notebook of a Return to my Native Land) records his conscious adoption of an African identity. This theme is returned to in later poems and plays, such as Une saison au Congo (1967, A Season in the Congo) and an African version of Shakespeare's The Tempest (1969). He has represented the progressive element in the politics of Martinique since 1945. |
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