Word: martinican
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...includes images of violence, mutilation, and blood, Cesaire's aim was not revolution but self-renewal. Until 1956 he was an avowed Communist, like many French surrealists, but he later came to reject Marxism because of its part in the dominant culture that had colonized Martinique. Cesaire founded the Martinican Progressive Party (PPM) in 1958 and during the 1960s, wrote plays about colonialism and liberation. The personal and political loss that colonialism had caused is tragically painted in "Africa...
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