[New-Poetry] WorldPo: Aimé Césaire’s

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http://www.bostonreview.net/BR33.5/dayan.php

Aimé Césaire’s miraculous words
 
Colin Dayan
 
When Aimé Césaire died in Fort-de-France, Martinique on April 17, 2008, Ségolène Royal and others called for him to be buried in the Panthéon in Paris, alongside Rousseau, Hugo, and Zola. Away from the land of his ancestors, the acclaimed poet and long-time mayor of Martinique’s capital Fort-de-France could be claimed for France. But the obituaries make clear that Césaire’s legacy is both powerful and troubling. 


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