Aimé Fernand David Césaire (born June 20, 1913, in Martinique) is a French poet and politician. June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining. ... 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics. ...

Biography

He was born in in Basse-Pointe, Martinique. In 1945, he was elected French National Assembly member from Martinique, as a member of the French Communist Party. Later that year he was elected mayor of Fort-de-France. Aimé Césaire remains one of the most famous black contemporary writers. His writings reflect his passion for civic and social engagement. He is the author of a famous Discours sur le colonialisme (1950) first published in the French review Présence Africaine. 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article concerns the modern National Assembly. ... The logo of the PCF. Note the absence of traditional communist imagery such as the hammer and sickle. ... Fort-de-France is the capital of Frances Caribbean département doutre-mer of Martinique. ...

Works

Poetry

• Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (1939), Return to my native land (bilingual edition), Paris: Présence Africaine 1968
• Armes miraculeuses (1946)
• Soleil cou coupé (1947)
• Corps perdu (1950)
• Ferrements (1960)
• Cadastre (1961)
• Moi, laminaire (1982)
• Collected Poetry, University of California Press 1983

Plays

• Et les Chiens se taisaient, tragédie: arrangement théâtral. Paris: Présence Africaine, 1958, 1997.
• La Tragédie du roi Christophe. Paris: Présence Africaine, 1963, 1993. The tragedy of King Christophe, New York: Grove 1969
• Une Tempête, d'après La tempête de Shakespeare: adaptation pour un théâtre nègre. Paris: Seuil, 1969, 1997. A Tempest, New York: Ubu repertory 1986
• Une Saison au Congo. Paris: Seuil, 1966, 2001. A season in the Congo, New York 1968, A play about Patrice Lumumba

Other writings

• Discourse on colonialism, New York, N.Y. : Monthly Review Press, 2000

Film about Césaire

Aimé Césaire - une voix pour l'histoire, french with english subtitles, Director: Euzhan Palcy 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1961 (As MAD Magazine pointed out on its first cover for the year) was the first upside-down year—i. ... 1982 is a number and represents a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar Events January January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the freeway killer. January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime... Patrice Lumumba Patrice Emery Lumumba (July 2, 1925 - January, 1961) was an African nationalist leader and the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo when it declared its independence in June 1960. ... Euzhan Palcy is a film director from Martinique, France. ...

See also

• Négritude

External links

• Aime Cesaire (http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Cesaire.html), biography, by Brooke Ritz, Postcolonial Studies website, English Department, Emory University. 1999.
• Aimé Césaire (http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ile.en.ile/paroles/cesaire.html), bibliography, biography, and links (in French), "île en île", City University of New York, 1998-2004.
  Négritude, a concept developed in the 1930s by a group that included the future Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor and the Francophone poet Aimé Césaire, is the belief that one should identify ones blackness without reference to ones homeland, native language, religion or spatial...