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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

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

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

So Césaire Houlbrèque went off with his whip under his arm, brooding over his own thoughts, and lifting up one after the other his heavy wooden shoes daubed with clay.

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

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