{"id":299,"date":"2009-03-31T10:51:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T14:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/2009\/03\/31\/commemorating-aime-cesaire-poet-rebel-statesman\/"},"modified":"2009-03-31T10:51:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T14:51:57","slug":"commemorating-aime-cesaire-poet-rebel-statesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/commemorating-aime-cesaire-poet-rebel-statesman\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemorating Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire: Poet, Rebel, Statesman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dl.lib.brown.edu\/libweb\/exhibits\/images\/cesaire_poster.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\"><br \/>\n<strong>Commemorating Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire: Poet, Rebel, Statesman<br \/>\n<\/strong>An exhibit curated by Dominique Coulombe and Pauline de Tholozany in collaboration with William Miles, Adjunct Research Professor of International Studies at the Watson Institute<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nJohn Hay Library foyer and reading room cases, March 30 &#8211; April 30, 2009<br \/>\nPoetry Reading, April 3, 5 pm, John Hay Library Lownes Room, followed by the exhibit opening reception<\/strong><br \/>\nAim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire was the foremost Black French intellectual-statesman-writer of the 20th  and 21st centuries.  Co-founder of the n\u00e9gritude school of literature in the 1930s, parliamentarian to the National Assembly in Paris for nearly 5 decades, and author of 16 books, plays, and poetry collections, C\u00e9saire&#8217;s recent demise is understandably mourned by Francophones throughout the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa.<br \/>\nAs lead-up to the Memorial Symposium hosted by the Watson Institute on April 17, a Commemorating Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire exhibit will showcase the Brown Library&#8217;s collection of C\u00e9saire&#8217;s oeuvres and works on the French Caribbean, along with other objets d&#8217;art and memorabilia (on loan from faculty) that are reminiscent of C\u00e9saire and his native island. A display in the John Hay Library foyer will be dedicated to President Ruth Simmons who explored The Poetic Language of Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire in her Ph. D. dissertation completed at Harvard University in 1973.<br \/>\nSponsors of the Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire Memorial Exhibit and Symposium include the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Office of the Cultural Services of the Consulate of France (Boston), the journal French Politics, Cultural and Society, the Alliance Fran\u00e7aise de Providence, and the Departments of Africana Studies, French Studies, Comparative Literature, and the Brown University Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commemorating Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire: Poet, Rebel, Statesman An exhibit curated by Dominique Coulombe and Pauline de Tholozany in collaboration with William Miles, Adjunct Research Professor of International Studies at the Watson Institute John Hay Library foyer and reading room cases, March 30 &#8211; April 30, 2009 Poetry Reading, April 3, 5 pm, John Hay Library Lownes <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/commemorating-aime-cesaire-poet-rebel-statesman\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Commemorating Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire: Poet, Rebel, Statesman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}