Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism: critical notes and extracts

I. Critical notes Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism was originally published in 1955. It has since become a foundational essay on the nature of colonialism in postcolonialism. Significantly, until the Soviet Union repression of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Césaire looked to the Soviet Union (and Stalinist socialism) as a future model for society. While Discourse on Colonialism presents as […]