Talk:Aimé Césaire

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Not sure if this is the right place, but I think it would be great if someone could put some Césaire quotes up on Wikiquote and link this article to there. That would be wonderful. Kennard2 00:15, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the following section (quoted in its entirety) because it was contributed by an IP address associated with California Newsreel. Maybe the information should be included somehow, but I don't know. If it is relevant and worthy of inclusion, I leave it to the regular contributors to this article to determine how it should be included and put it back. -- ke4roh 02:21, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

==Film about Césaire== ''Aimé Césaire - une voix pour l'histoire'', (1994). French with English subtitles, Director: [[Euzhan Palcy]] distributor: California Newsreel, oficial site: http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0115&s=aime%20cesaire<br> "Aimé Césaire - Poète de l'Universelle Fraternité", (1994) CRDP Martinique, French, Director: Jean-Francois Gonzalez

I'm currently looking for this essay (?) for one of my classes, but cannot find anything -- in my books, handouts, notes, Google or Yahoo. Does it exist? Where?

Michael Krenzer

Krenzer (talk) 23:29, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to User:91.66.209.243: the Senegalese papers pulled their death notices after I trundled off to bed, I can only assume put up on rumors. Two good sources on his state of health might be [1] and [2]. If he does pass away (hopefully in the far future), L'Humanite and Liberation would be two good Metropole papers to check. For the moment, this would be a good time to expand his biography and studies of his rich body of work. The fr.wiki article at fr:Aimé Césaire has some bits which could be translated. T L Miles (talk) 14:01, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Did he ever visit Africa? Badagnani (talk) 18:15, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There's a mysterious half-of-a-hyperlink or something replacing the latter half of a sentence in the section "later life" that should be eliminated. --Vespershyacinthe (talk) 01:02, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Césaire is notable for his views on colonisation, so it is a mistake to list him as French.

• Brittanica opens with "Aimé Césaire, in full Aimé-Fernand-David Césaire, (born June 26, 1913, Basse-Pointe, Mart. —died April 17, 2008, Fort-de-France), Martinican poet, playwright, and politician"^{[nat 1]}

• His Guardian obituary opens with "Aimé Césaire, the Martinican intellectual and politician who has died aged 94, left his mark in two separate ..."^{[nat 2]}

• The University of Pennsylvania poetry bio opens with "Martinican poet, playwright, and politician, one of the most influential authors from the French-speaking Caribbean."^{[nat 3]}

All these suggest that the version at [3] is a better opening paragraph.

Note: I have declined a request at

Rodallex (talk) 11:08, 7 February 2022 (UTC): I have rewritten the intro to include both "French" and "sometimes referred to as Martinican rather than French due to his work against colonialism." It is very strange not to include "French" for a person who was a French citizen, who served as an elected official in the French National Assembly, who has a commemorative plaque in the Pantheon, and who helped make Martinique a full fledged French department. He was clearly invested in the future of the French democratic project.[reply]

Could you please provide a reliable source where he is referred to as French? See the sources above for Martinican.Newystats (talk) 06:11, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, of course. He is widely known as French and referred to as such. And his anticolonialism didn't express itself as striving for an independant Martinique, he was a leading architect of the departmentalisation of Martinique, which his Guardian obituary also points out. The man was born a French citizen and died one, his wife, also a Martinican writer, is also referred to as French. ^{[1][2] [3][4][5][6][7]} Rodallex (talk) 16:46, 12 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List of his mandates in the

Assemblée Nationale

on the official site thereof.

His commemorative plaque at the Panthéon.

By the way,

Départements of France, there is no contradiction in Césaire being a full-fledged Frenchman as well as a full-fledged Martinican. Noliscient (talk) 10:06, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply

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