Césaire

[ sey-zer ]

noun

1. Ai·mé Fer·nand [e-, mey, fe, r, -, nahn], 1913–2008, West Indian poet, playwright, and politician.

Example Sentences

He was a distinguished poet who pioneered Négritude - an anti-colonialist movement that championed African cultures - alongside Martinican poet Aimé Cesairé while a student in Paris in the 1930s.

From BBC

Oka turned his acolyte on to authors outside the Beat movement, including Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire — “the first crack in the door to this vast world of literature beyond what was produced here.”

From Los Angeles Times

Both Laurence and myself are the products of hybrid, many-faceted experiences which range from Edouard Gilssant and Aimé Césaire to Pasolini and Marguerite Duras.

From Salon

As the set neared its end, Cesaire, 43, noticed the crowd jumping with more and more intensity, so he pulled up a second live feed, this one streaming data from a small, inexpensive seismograph called a Raspberry Shake, which he’d just installed in his classroom at the nearby Civic Leadership Academy.

From New York Times

“The seismograph actually seemed to pick up the crowd jumping up and down from 1.3 miles away,” Cesaire said.

From New York Times