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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

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

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

Nothing was changed, except that his son, Césaire, slept in the cemetery.

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