Aimé Césaire (1913–2008)

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1. Frantz Fanon

   Author of The Wretched of the Earth, Black Skin, White Masks, A Dying Colonialism

2. Michel Foucault

   Author of Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge (An Introduction), Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977

3. Aimé Césaire

   Author of Discourse on Colonialism, A Tempest, The Collected Poetry

4. Edward W. Said

   Author of Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism, Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (Convergences: Inventories of the Present)

5. Robert Edward Duncan

   Author of Bending the Bow, The Opening of the Field, Roots and Branches

6. Derek Walcott

   Author of Omeros, Collected Poems, 1948-1984, Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays

7. Judith Butler

   Author of Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence

8. Antonio Gramsci

   Author of Selections from the Prison Notebooks, The Modern Prince and Other Writings

9. C.L.R. James

   Author of The Black Jacobins, American Civilization

10. Louis Althusser

    Author of Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, Reading Capital

11. André Breton

    Author of Nadja, Manifestoes of Surrealism, Earthlight

12. Benedict Anderson

    Author of Imagined Communities, Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination

13. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

    Author of Weep Not, Child, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Studies in African Literature Series)

14. Charles Olson

    Author of The Maximus Poems, The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems

15. Walter Benjamin

    Author of Illuminations, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

16. Michel Leiris

    Author of The Rules of the Game: Scratches (Leiris, Michel, Regle Du Jeu. 1.), The Automatic Muse: Surrealist Novels

17. Rene Crevel

    Author of Babylon, Putting My Foot in It

18. Guillaume Apollinaire

    Author of Calligrammes, Apollinaire on Art: Essays and Reviews, 1902-1918

19. Albert Memmi

    Author of The Colonizer and the Colonized

20. John Ashbery

    Author of Flow Chart, Girls on the Run: A Poem