A Season in the Congo (SB-The French List)
Aime Césaire(1913–2008)was born in Basse-Pointe, Martinique. Though educated in Paris, he was deeply involved in the struggle for French West Indian rights. He is the author of several volumes of poetry and plays, includingPutting in Fetters;Lost Bodies,Decapitated Sun; andThe Tragedy of King Christophe.Gayatri Chakravorty Spivakis University Professor in the humanities and director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.