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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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Oka turned his acolyte on to authors outside the Beat movement, including Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire — “the first crack in the door to this vast world of literature beyond what was produced here.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2023

Both Laurence and myself are the products of hybrid, many-faceted experiences which range from Edouard Gilssant and Aimé Césaire to Pasolini and Marguerite Duras.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2023

Your protagonist in The Committed seems to be grappling with canonical postcolonial writers, notably Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire, throughout the novel.

From The Guardian • Mar. 6, 2021

The introduction of these French intellectuals, as well as the narrator’s own reading, allows him to brood over the revolutionary ideas of Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Marx, Sartre and others.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2021

As soon as he saw the peasant entering, he asked, merely turning round his head: "Well, Césaire, what do you want?"

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