Brent Hayes Edwards talks to Adam about Aimé Césaire's 1950 essay Discourse on Colonialism, a groundbreaking work of 20th-century anti-colonial thought and a precursor to the writings of Césaire's protégé, Frantz Fanon. Césaire was Martinique’s most influential poet and one of its most prominent politicians as a deputy in the French National Assembly, and his Discourse is addressed directly at his country’s colonisers. Adam and Brent consider Césaire’s poetry alongside his political arguments and the particular characteristics of his version of négritude, the far-reaching movement of black consciousness he founded with Léopold Sédar Senghor and Léon Damas.
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Musab Younis: The Mouth of Calamities
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n23/musab-younis/the-mouth-of-calamities
Musab Younis: Against Independence
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v39/n13/musab-younis/against-independence
Brent Hayes Edwards: Inside the Barrel
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v31/n17/brent-hayes-edwards/inside-the-barrel
John Berger & David Constantine: Aimé Césaire’s Return to My Native Land
Brent Hayes Edwards is a scholar of African American and Francophone literature and of jazz studies at Columbia University.
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