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    A Study Guide for Aimé Césaire's "Une Tempête"
    A Study Guide for Aimé Césaire's "Une Tempête"
    A Study Guide for Aimé Césaire's "Une Tempête"
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    A Study Guide for Aimé Césaire's "Une Tempête"

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    A Study Guide for Aimé Césaire's "Une Tempête", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMay 15, 2018
    ISBN9781410393166
    A Study Guide for Aimé Césaire's "Une Tempête"

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      A Study Guide for Aimé Césaire's "Une Tempête" - Gale

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      Une Tempête

      Aimé Césaire

      1969

      Introduction

      Une tempête (A Tempest) is a play by Martinique poet, dramatist, and politician Aimé Césaire. An adaptation of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest from a postcolonial perspective, A Tempest was first performed and published in 1969. Its full title was Une tempête: D'apres La tempête de Shakespeare, adaptation pour un théâtrenègre. An English version of the play, translated by Emile Snyder and Sanford Upson, was published in New York in 1975 by the Third World Press. Another translation, on which this entry is based, was made by Richard Miller and published in 1986. It is subtitled Adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest for a Black Theater. The play had its American premiere at the Ubu Repertory Theater in New York City on October 9, 1991. The play is important because it is a representative work of early postcolonial drama, a type of literature in which writers from colonies and former colonies present the colonial experience from the point of view of the indigenous people who have suffered under foreign domination.

      Author Biography

      CéSaire Was Born On June 25, 1913, In Basse-Pointe, Martinique. He Had His Initial Education In Martinique And Then Went To Paris In 1932, Where He Entered The LycéE Louis-Le-Grand, Where He Studied Philosophy. In 1934, He Published An Article In L'Etudiant Noir, a journal he cofounded, which used the word negritude for the first time. Césaire was to emerge as one of the three leaders of the Negritude cultural and literary movement that sought to advance black consciousness. The following year he was accepted into the prestigious École normale supérieure. In 1937, he married Suzanne Roussy, a writer. Two years later, in 1939, he published the long autobiographical poem Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (Notebook of a Return to the Native Land), which protests against the conditions endured by black people in Martinique. This was also the year that World War II began, and Césaire and his wife returned to Martinique, where they taught in the public schools. In 1941, he was one of the cofounders of the review Tropiques, which contained criticism of the wartime Vichy government in France and

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