Aimé Césaire

Title

Aimé Césaire

Birth Date

1913

Birthplace

Basse-Pointe, Martinique

Death Date

2008

Primary Sources

Césaire, A. ([1983] 2020). The collected poetry. University of California Press.

Césaire, A. (2011). Solar throat slashed: The unexpurgated 1948 edition, Translated by Arnold, A.J. & Eshleman, C. Wesleyan University Press.

Césaire, A. ([1955] 2010). Culture and colonization. Social Text, 28(2), 127–144. 
https://doi-org.eu1.proxy. openathens. net/10.1215 /01642472-2009-071.

Césaire, A. ([1972], 2001). Discourse on colonialism: An interview with Aimé Césaire, Translated by Pinkham, New York University Press. 
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qfkrm

Césaire, A. (2001). Notebook of a return to the native land. Translated by Eshleman. C., & Smith, A. Wesleyan University Press.

Secondary Sources

Allen-Paisant, J. (2022). Thinking with Spirits, or Dwelling and Knowing in the Work of Aimé Césaire. French Studies: A Quarterly Review, 76(4), 576.

Allen-Paisant, J. (2021). Unthinking Philosophy: Aimé Césaire, Poetry, and the Politics of Western Knowledge. Atlantic Studies: Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives, 18(2), 193–216. 
https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2020.1816129

Extra Resources

Ferguson, J. (2008, April 21). Obituary:Aimé Césaire: Martinican politician, intellectual and poet who was a founding father of the négritude movement. The Guardian, Accessed 5 Nov, 2022. 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/21/3.

The Dali. (2021, September 10). Aimé Césaire online exhibit. Accessed 5 Nov, 2022. 
https://thedali.org/exhibit/aime-cesaire-online/.

Collection

Citation

“Aimé Césaire,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed September 12, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/189.

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