Aime Césaire, whose Discourse on Colonialism remains (all too) relevant – and who protested to some effect in 2005after French President Jacques Chirac instructed schools to teach about the “positive role” of colonialism – was also “an imaginative writer who molded the French language to make a personal poetry characterized by hypnotic physicality, ritualized anguish, and metaphorical exorcisms.” – Hyperallergic
