Placing Césaire

Abstract

Picture the bibliographical prelude: in 1973, Frederick Ivor Case publishes the first enumerative bibliography of Aime Cesaire with the simple title “Aime Cesaire: Bibliographie”. Around the same time, we imagine Thomas Hale already hard at work on his thesis, “Aime Cesaire: His Literary and Political Writings with a Bio-Bibliography”, which he submits in 1974. A few years later, in 1978, a revised version of the latter is published in a special issue of Etudes francaises, “Les Ecrits d’Aime ...