Aime Cesaire

Discours sur le colonialisme is an essay by Aimé Césaire, a poet and politician from Martinique who helped found the négritude movement in the Francophone literature. Césaire first published the essay in 1950 in Paris with Editions Réclame, a small publisher associated with the French Communist Party. Five years …

Aimé Césaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. The long poem was the beginning of Césaire's quest for négritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. With its emphasis on unusual juxtapositions of object and metaphor, …