La socialité du texte dans Une saison au Congo d’Aimé Césaire: Approche sociocritique

Abstract

Poet and playwright Aimee Césaire (1913-2008) was concerned with issues of blacks, colonialism, and slavery. In the play Une saison au Congo (1973), Césaire dealt with the reign of Lumumba, who started liberating the Congo and wanted to accomplish this enormous task in a short time. But Lumumba was surrounded by domestic as well as foreign conspiracies. The play ends with the assassination of Lumumba and represents many political, social, and cultural aspects characterizing the Congo. It could be said that the play is a historical work as it offers historical events as they occurred though in a literary style.