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Discours sur le colonialisme: suivi du Petit matin d'Aimé Césaire

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Texte intégral révisé suivi du Petit matin d'Aimé Césaire par René Depestre. Publié en 1950, c'est-à-dire au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, pendant celle de Corée et peu avant celle d'Algérie, le pamphlet d'Aimé Césaire est non seulement l'un des plus grands textes fondateurs de l'anticolonialisme mais aussi un violent réquisitoire contre le capitalisme et la bourgeoisie européenne. L'auteur du Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, à l'époque député membre du Parti communiste, y dénonce avec force la barbarie de cette bourgeoisie occidentale décadente qui trouva un exutoire en colonisant les pays du tiers-monde au nom d'une "civilisation" soi-disant supérieure, soumettant les peuples à l'oppression et à la haine, à la violence et à la destruction, à l'exploitation et au pillage, au racisme et au fascisme. Avec ce vibrant acte d'accusation aujourd'hui entré dans l'Histoire, le fondateur du mouvement littéraire de la Négritude fait le procès implacable, toujours actuel, d'une Europe "indéfendable". À ceux qui sont aujourd'hui encore tentés de comptabiliser les aspects "positifs" de la colonisation, son pamphlet sonne comme un rappel.

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Published February 18, 2014

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Aimé Césaire

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Martinique-born poet, playwright, and politician Aimé Fernand Césaire contributed to the development of the concept of negritude; his primarily surrealist works include The Miracle Weapons (1946) and A Tempest (1969).

A francophone author of African descent. His books of include Lost Body, with illustrations by Pablo Picasso, Aimé Césaire: The Collected Poetry, and Return to My Native Land. He is also the author of Discourse on Colonialism, a book of essays which has become a classic text of French political literature and helped establish the literary and ideological movement Negritude, a term Césaire defined as “the simple recognition of the fact that one is black, the acceptance of this fact and of our destiny as blacks, of our history and culture.” Césaire is a recipient of the International Nâzim Hikmet Poetry Award, the second winner in its history. He served as Mayor of Fort-de-France as a member of the Communist Party, and later quit the party to establish his Martinique Independent Revolution Party. He was deeply involved in the struggle for French West Indian rights and served as the deputy to the French National Assembly. He retired from politics in 1993. Césaire died in Martinique.

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