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Césaire
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Cé·saire  (s-zâr), Aimé Fernand Born 1913.
Martinique-born poet, playwright, and politician who contributed to the development of the concept of negritude. His primarily surrealist works include The Miracle Weapons (1946) and A Tempest (1969).


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The poets of Negritude, Aime Cesaire in particular, and his classic work, Return to My Native Land, had a big impact on me.
Nonetheless, Freedomways was able to establish exchange relationships with other significant black radical publications covering anticolonial activities, notably Presence Africaine, headed by exiled Senegalese leaders Leopold Senghor and Aimee Cesaire.
In order to help them formulate their inchoate ideology during the 1930s, the founders of negritude, Leopold Senghor (Senegal), Aime Cesaire (Martinique), and Leon Damas (French Guiana), looked to the writings of the Harlem Renaissance as examples of literary expression of a positive Black consciousness.
 
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