Aimé Césaire: Une Voix Pour L’Histoire; Part I: L’ile Veilleuse
November 10, 2008Aime Cesaire: A Voice for History; Part I: The Vigilant Island
Call Number: VHS00325
by Euzhan Palcy; Annick Thébia-Melsan; Jean-Lou Monthieux; Richard Suvelor; Joseph Zobel; Lou Laurin-Lam; René Depestre; Edouard de Lepine; Lilyan Kesteloot; Société nationale de programme France-Régions.; Institut national de l’audiovisuel (France); Radio-France.; Radio-Television Senegalaise.; Saligna and So On (Firm); California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel [distributor], ©1997.
Notes: Originally released in 1994 (54 mins.);
Summary: Part 1 of a 3 part series on the Martinique author, Aime Cesaire, introduces Cesaire, his wife Suzanne who founded in 1939 the seminal literary review, Tropiques, a journal which influenced Caribbean intellectuals and spawned the Negritude Literary Movement. After WWII, Cesaire served as mayor of Fort-de-France and Martinique’s representative in the French National Assembly during the crucial years of decolonization. He discusses the difficulty of balancing the life of a poet with that of a practical politician for over 50 years.
OCLC #: 36059543
