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The Modernist Poet Who Understood The Precarity Of Civilization

by Artsjournal2

Aime Césaire, whose Discourse on Colonialism remains (all too) relevant " and who protested to some effect in 2005after French President Jacques Chirac instructed schools to teach about the "positive role" of colonialism " was also "an imaginative writer who molded the French language to make a personal poetry characterized by hypnotic physicality, ritualized anguish, and […]

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 3:24pm on February 14, 2021