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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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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

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

Césaire replied: "I am much afraid it is."

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

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