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AIMÉ CÉSAIRE (1913-2008)
Legendary poet and politician, Aimé Césaire, was born on June 26, 1913, in the small town of Basse-Pointe on the island of Martinique.
In 1931 Césaire went to Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris to prepare for entrance to Ecole Normale Supérieure.
In Paris, Césaire met Senegalese Léopold Sédar Senghor and French Guiana’s Léon Damas. Together they started the journal L’Etudiant Noir (The Black Student) in 1934 to bring together students from Africa and the West Indies.
Together they started the journal L’Etudiant Noir (The Black Student) in 1934 to bring together students from Africa and the West Indies. The journal explored the expression of a Pan-African worldview under colonization. The concept of Negritude, a word coined by Césaire, would be founded on these ideas.
In 1935 he began what would be his most renowned poem, “Cahier d’un Retour au pays natal” (“Notebook of a Return to the native Land”). Cahier focuses on alienation in the African Diaspora.
By 1939, Aimé and Suzanne Césaire returned to Martinique. With others, they launched the journal Tropiques, which emulated Surrealism, drew upon Marxism, and responded to the racist Vichy rule of Martinique.
…was elected mayor of Fort-de-France, the capital of Martinique, in 1945.
A fervent anti-colonialist, he published Discours sur le colonialisme (Discourse on Colonialism) in 1950.
Césaire founded the Martinican Socialist party, Partie Progressiste Martiniquais (PPM) in 1958.
Césaire also served as a deputy in France’s National Assembly from 1946 to 1956 and again from 1958 to 1993.
Forty-eight years after first being elected mayor, Césaire retired from politics in 1993. His last book of poetry, La Poesie, was published in 1994.
Source:
Micklin, A. (2008, May 23). Aimé Césaire (1913-2008). BlackPast.org. www.blackpast....
SOURCE OF THE AUTHOR'S INFORMATION:
Robin D.G. Kelley, “A Poetics of Anticolonialism,” Discourse on Colonialism (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000); Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith, Aimé Césaire: Collected Poetry, Trans. by Eshleman and Smith (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983); www.hommage-ces....
Aimé Césaire
It is My turn to pose an equation
Colonization equals objectification;
I hear the storm, I am told of progress in the achievement of cured diseases;
Of a high standard of of living above themselves.
I speak of society screwed by the same two trampled cultures and of ’institutions mines and confiscated lands and murdered religion of artistic magnificence annihilated; extraordinary possibilities suppressed.
I am thrown at the head of the facts the statistics of the mileages of roads of of railway canals. I speak millions of men torn from their god to their lands to their habit to to their life to life to dance to wisdom.
I am talking about millions of men who have been skillfully instilled with
fear, inferiority complex, trembling, kneeling, despair, shrinking,
We give a full view of tonnage of canton or cocoa exported of hectares of olive trees or vines planted.
I am talking about a natural economy, a harmonious and viable economy, an economy commensurate with disorganized indigenous man of destroyed food crops of installed undernutrition of agricultural development oriented according to the sole benefit
of metropolis
of raids products
Of raw materials
I am accused abuses suppressed;
I too speak of abuses, but to say that old very real one has superimposed other very detestable ones we are not talking about local tyrants brought to reason but I note that in general they get along very well with the new ones and that from these to the old ones and vice versa it has established itself to the detriment.
Peoples with circuit of good services and complicity.
I am speaking of civilization
Speaking of proletarianization and mystification for my part I make the systematic apology of European parra civilizations, every day that passes
Every denial of justice
Every police beating
Every complaint rigor down in blood
Every suppressed scandal
Every punitive expedition
Every CSR card
Every policemen
Every militiaman
Makes us feel the price of our societies.
They were community societies.
Never of all for a few.
They were societies not just capitalist as we as we say ‘said but also anti-capitalist,
It was democratic societies always,
It was cooperative societies;
Fraternal societies.
Défenseur de mon Pays
Source: • Aimé Césaire : Discour...