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Article: Aime Cesaire: Une traversee paradoxale du siecle.(Brief Article)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
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Negritude, one of whose initiators was Aime Cesaire, spawned as many partisans as detractors, but the personalities of the founding fathers were generally left unscathed. Negritude in Africa became a tainted ideology, being closely associated with the brutal neocolonial regimes. Cesaire, however, remained a revered figure in the francophone Caribbean region. There have been some dissident voices in Martinique and elsewhere, but they were hardly heard in the din of the hosannas until recently.
With the arrival of a movement whose partisans call themselves "Creolistes," among whom Raphael Confiant is at the very forefront, dissidence has gained respectability, ...