Brianna Manbauman FOUN1011 Caribbean Civilization Book Report Brianna Manbauman The University of The West Indies Dr Beckford November 11, 2022 Brianna Manbauman Book Report Amiè Cèsaire is a novel that was written by Elizabeth Walcott- Hackshaw published by The University of The West Indies Mona of 2021. According to The University of the West Indies Press Elizabeth Walcott- Hackshaw is a Professor of French Literature and Creative Writing at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. She has written and co-edited books including: A Border Crossing: A Trilingual Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers, The Caribbean Short Story: Critical Perspectives, Echoes of the Haitian Revolution: 1804-2004, Four Taxis Facing North and Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and its Cultural Aftershocks (1804-2004). The author learnt about Amiè Cèsaire in a class on African literature, Cèsaire was a French poet, playwriter, essayist, theorist and politican and was born in Martinique. The African literature included Senegalese Lèopold Sèdar Senghor and Lèon-Gontran Damas from French Guiana. They were all grouped including Cèsaire as the founding members of the Negritude Movement. The negritude movement was an anti-colonial cultural and political movement founded by a group of African and Caribbean students in Paris in the 1030s who sought to reclaim the value of blackness and African culture. The book was difficult to read with understanding because of the French language, the setting of the book was during the second world war. There were some issues faced in the novel which will be highlighted throughout this report and examining how it affected the with the aid of the course FOUN1011, Caribbean Civilization. Some of these issues were: Culture, Black Identity, Migration and In the novel the themes highlighted were Culture, Black Identity, Race, Migration,Caribbean Intellectual Tradition, Colonialism, Demographic Diversity, Resistance and Nationalism. Brianna Manbauman These themes will also be attached to some units found in the Caribbean Civilization Course, FOUN1011. Aimé Césaire was born in Martinique. CultureBlack IdentityMigrationColonialism- Brianna Manbauman Reference Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw | University of the West Indies Press (uwipress.com)
