Aim©♭ C©♭saire / Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw.
| Author/creator | Walcott-Hackshaw, Elizabeth |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Kingston, Jamaica : University of West Indies Press, 2021. |
| Description | ix, 81 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Caribbean Biography Series |
| General note | Biography of Ami©♭ C©♭saire (1913-2008), a Francophone poet, author and politician from Martinique. He was "one of the founders of the n©♭gritude movement in Francophone literature". His works include: poetry, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, (1939), Les armes miraculeuses (1946), Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (1947), Soleil cou-coup©♭ (1948), Corps perdu (1950), Ferrements (1960), Cadastre (1961), Moi, laminaire (1982), Comme un malentendu de salut (1994) ; theatre, Et les Chiens se taisaient (1958), La Trag©♭die du roi Christophe (1963), Une Saison au Congo (1966), Une Temp©®te (1969) [adaptation pour un th©♭©Øtre n©·gre] ; as well as numerous essays. In 1945, with the support of the French Communist Party (PCF), C©♭saire was elected mayor of Fort-de-France and deputy to the French National Assembly for Martinique. He was one of the principal drafters of the 1946 law on departmentalizing former colonies, a role for which independentist politicians have often criticized him. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-80). |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022377662 |
| ISBN | 9789766408299 |
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