CÉSAIRE AIMÉ, (1913-2008) Had been born in Basse-pointe (Martinique), writer and politician, it is one of the biggest contemporary poets of French language and, in Africa, the most famous writer.
This celebrity, he owes her as much to his poetry of the "negritude" as to his daily fight for the definitive liberation of the black man and the dialogue between the various civilizations.
To Aimé CÉSAIRE, the poetic work is inseparable of the political commitment. Sorry spectator and rebel of the situation of the CARIBBEAN, in particular Martinique and Guadeloupe, it comes to Paris, enters the Superior teachers' training college and gets involved in the literary life of time(the surrealism).
Poet of the negritude, in 1934, he, with Léon-Gontran Damas and Léopold Sédar Senghor, " the Student Black ", seen again intended to group together the Africans and the Carïbéens in the inventory of their past cultural wealth and in the fight against the political and intellectual colonialism.
In 1938, he drafts the " Exercise book of return in the native country " before returning himself in Martinique in 1939. He publishes the review "Tropiques", writes "Soleil coupé" in 1948, " lost Body " in 1949, while militating politically.
Delegated by Martinique in 1945, he did not stop being reelected until 1993.Mayor of Fort-de-France since 1946, founder of the PPM (left progressive from Martinique), he militated a lot for the independence of the French coloniesof Africa (Speech on the colonialism) and for the autonomy of Martinique and Guadeloupe.For what recovers from the poetic domain, he wants at all costs that comes to an end the imitation of the Europeans and create a poetry of going back up"exploration", without cheating, up to the sources of himself and his brothers.He finds images, rhythms, words which are the true nature of his people and among whom the lyric and the violence do not exclude a universal collection of happiness. After "Cadastre" (1961), " A season in Congo " (1967), " A storm " ( 1969 ), its complete works appeared in Fort-de-France in 1976.
CÉSAIRE Aimé tries to fall to the descendants of slaves, the pride and the vigour lost, not by maintaining the nostalgia for a world of "front", but by creating a new brotherhood, a modern company And he counts for it, in good part, on the power of the poetry which étymologiquement ) "fact"("<by way of") and does not content with describing or with evoking.