Aimé Césaire : a voice for history. I, The vigilant island [videorecording] / co-produced by Saligna and So On, France 3, L'Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, Radio France Outremer and Radio-Television Senegalaise.

San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1994.

1 videocassette (54 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.

Part 1 of a 3 part series on the Martinique author, Aime Cesaire, introduces Cesaire, his wife Suzanne who founded in 1939 the seminal literary review, Tropiques, a journal which influenced Caribbean intellectuals and spawned the Negritude Literary Movement. After WWII, Cesaire served as mayor of Fort-de-France and Martinique's representative in the French National Assembly during the crucial years of decolonization. He discusses the difficulty of balancing the life of a poet with that of a practical politician for over 50 years.

Images / Video & Film

French

June 01, 2002

Concept, Euzhan Palcy, Annick Thébia-Melsan ; executive producer, Jean-Lou Monthieux ; director, Euzhan Palcy.

Roland Suvelor (educator), Joseph Zobel (writer), Lou Lawin Lam, Rene Depestre (writer), Edouard De Lepine (historian), Lilyan Kestelcot (historian)

VHS.