Aimé Césaire

Negro sou, negro serei é um livro do poeta, ensaísta, dramaturgo e político martinicano Aimé Césaire com Françoise Vergès, cientista social e ativista feminista decolonial. O livro, resultado desse encontro, oferece uma visão abrangente das ideias e perspectivas de Aimé Césaire (1913-2008) sobre as questões às quais se dedicou por toda a vida: a identidade negra, o colonialismo e a luta pela emancipação racial. Para isso, ele analisa...

The surrealist poetry of the noted Martinican author, Aime Cesaire, portrays Africa's fight for freedom from colonialism.

Aimé Césaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. This long poem was the beginning of Césaire's quest for négritude, and it became an anthem of blacks around the world. Commentary on Césaire's work has often focused on its Cold War and anticolonialist rhetoric - material that Césaire only added in 1956. The original 1939 version of the poem, here in French and in its first...

Set in the period of upheaval in Haiti after the assassination of Jean-Jacques Dessalines in 1806, it follows the historical figure of Henri Christophe, a slave who rose to become a general in Toussaint Louverture's army. Christophe declared himself king in 1811 and ruled the northern part of Haiti until 1820. Cesaire employs Shakespearean plotting and revels in the inexhaustible possibilities of language to convey the tragedy of Christophe's transformation...