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Aimé Césaire was born in Basse-Pointe, Martinique, in the French Caribbean. His father, Fernand Elphège, was educated as teacher, but later worked as a manager of a sugar estate. Eléonore, his mother a seamstress. In Cahier Césaire described his childhood without mercy: "And the bed of planks from which my race has risen, all my race from this bed of planks on its feet of kerosene cases, as if the old bed had elephantiasis, covered with a goat skin, and its dried banana leaves and its rags, the ghost

his major character. While spinning the novel, Jane Eyre, she gives her interpretation amid the narrative by addressing issues such as roles of women, colonization and racism that Bronte did not point out in her novel otherwise. A Tempest by Aime Cesaire Aime Cesaire’s play, A Tempest is an adaptation of The Tempest by William Shakespeare. The author parodies Shakespeare’s play from post-colonial point of view. Cesaire also changes the occupations and races of his characters. For example, he transforms

Colonial Language in Shakespeare's The Tempest and Aime Cesaire's A Tempest       Language and literature are the most subtle and seductive tools of domination. They gradually shape thoughts and attitudes on an almost subconscious level. Perhaps Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak states this condition most succinctly in her essay "The Burden of English" when she writes, "Literature buys your assent in an almost clandestine way...for good or ill, as medicine or poison, perhaps always a bit of both"(137)

to be discussed in regards to Prospero and his relationship with Caliban as his master. Caliban is, for the most part, a very one-dimensional and static character that only serves to ensure Prospero and his daughter Miranda survive on their island. Aime Cesaire, a Martinican playwright and poet, authors his own reinterpretation of The Tempest and shifts the audience’s attention from Prospero’s vengeance to Caliban and his relationship to Prospero. In his reinterpretation,

Overview The main character, Josey Aimes, takes her children back home to her parents’ after her boyfriend beat her. She receives very little sympathy from her parents or anybody else. She makes an effort to support herself being a hairdresser but it doesn’t pay enough. Shortly after she takes up a new job as a miner. This job pays over six times more than being a hairdresser. She can finally support her family on her own, in a new house. Throughout the movie men constantly harass the female employees

Discourse on Colonialism Aime Cesaire’s Discourse on Colonialism, first published in 1955, reads as a passionate and scathing piece of prose, laying heavy but warranted criticism on Europe, the oppressive classes and those who continue to allow such oppression to continue. While being written around 1955 specifically about colonialism, it bears many explicit and metaphorical statements which can be applied to our situation today both in terms of racial struggles as well as struggles against capitalism

and geopolitics. When the ruling class begins to demonize a foreign country one of the first questions you should ask yourself is “What is actually at stake here?” After all, money makes the world go round. Aime Cesaire was a French poet, author, and politician from Martinique. In Aime Cesaire’s work titled “Discourse on Colonialism” he exposes the hypocrisy and brutality that goes along with forging empires in regards to the old European powers, which directly relates to the United States empire

Aime Cesaire’s Discourse on Colonialism, first published in 1955, reads as a passionate and scathing piece of prose, laying heavy, but warranted criticism on Europe, the oppressed classes and those who continue to allow such oppression to continue. While being written around 1955 specifically about colonialism, it bears many explicit and metaphorical statements which can be applied to our situation today, both in terms of racial struggles as well as struggles against capitalism and imperialism. While

Change of Heart: Hank Aimes’ Transformation in the film North Country The film North Country takes place in 1989 and examines the experiences of female workers in Northern Minnesota’s male-dominated mining industry. The film focuses on Josey Aimes, a single mother of two children, who in desperation gets a controversial, yet good paying job at a mine. Josey and her female co-workers are subjected to continuous harassment by the mine’s male workers. Josey’s father, Hank Aimes, also works at this mine

colonial situation of European colonization" (Carlberg).  This movement, which influenced Africans as well as blacks around the world, specifically rejects the political, social, and moral domination of the West.   Leopold Senghor, Leon Damas, and Aime Cesaire are the three pioneers of the revolution.  The founder who expresses his ideas more broadly, though, is Cesaire, who uses literary works to express his viewpoint on colonization.  An excellent example of such a tactic is his play, A Tempest