Short biography highlights Césaire's founding of the Negritude movement, shaping African identity and rejecting Western ideology
Includes his major poetic work, Cahier d'un retour au pays, for literary significance
Explores his political career and fight for marginalized groups under colonial rule
Paperback format for easy handling and portability
Written by Elizabeth Walcott Hackshaw, a recognized expert on Caribbean literature
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This brief biography looks at one of the most influential writers from the francophone Caribbean. Aimé Césaire was a poet, playwright and politician, who, along with Léon-Gontran Damas from French Guiana and Léopold Senghor of Senegal, founded the Negritude movement in the 1930s. The men had come together as young black students in Paris