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Césaire

American  
[sey-zer] / seɪˈzɛr /

noun

  1. Aimé Fernand 1913–2008, West Indian poet, playwright, and politician.


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The characters also pick up Judith Butler, Aimé Césaire and Jacques Lacan — just more light reads on feminism, colonialism and psychoanalysis.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2021

RDGK: I would say — following the argument that Aimé Césaire made in 1950, and that Hannah Arendt made after that — that the roots of fascism are in colonial domination.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2021

And for the 2019–20 school year, students can eschew Shakespeare and Homer for a course on postcolonial literature that features the writings of Jamaica Kincaid, Salman Rushdie, Aimé Césaire, and Toni Morrison.

From Slate • Jun. 10, 2019

Sprinkled throughout the show, particularly in the wall text, are references to writers and thinkers like James Baldwin, Aimé Césaire, Jean Rhys, Édouard Glissant and Stuart Hall, who all eloquently addressed colonialism, racism and migration.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2015

Césaire looked straight before him through the window, thinking of nothing happy.

From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 by Maupassant, Guy de