Aime Cesaire

When our eyes start to read this poem, those can feel the nostalgia of the author. Also his words give us what Aimé Césaire considered one of the founders of the Negritude literary movement because he anticipated the Civil rights movement in the decade of the 1950’s. “Nor with the liberator fixed in his whitewashed stone liberation. Nor with the conquistador. Nor with this contempt, with freedom, with this audacity” (3), for example this phrase gives us an idea of how the African people felt about slavery and not living in their own country. Also, the oppression and violation of their human rights puts them in the path of forgetting their culture and idiosyncrasy because they become someone else, something that they do not want. At this time white society restrains their freedom and imposes their way of thinking. Then, the readers can figure out that the black people want their own life, they do not want anybody telling them what they need to do.

“I have assassinated God with my laziness with my words with my gesture with my obscene songs.”(19), this ironical phrase tells us of how black people feel about themselves because society has always put in their minds that they are nothing that they are the social plague. But this ironic phrase “I have assassinated God with my laziness” is killing the logical thought, the truth, and history because it tells us different things. For example, Black people were sacrificing their life everyday in the cane camp, working very hard without any kind of job protection. Also, they were working as hard as the animals because they were working for 14 hours a day, and living in inhuman and infrahuman conditions. Black people lost everything that they had, when they were brought to
Latin America because they lost their culture and their idiosyncrasy. 

Césaire explains us the truth about how humans are looking for their own identity, and the place they come from. These aspects and melancholy never leaves their mind. In his prose Césaire criticized society, looking for the identity, and condemning his words that it is a violation of the human rights act.