The correct answer is 3 (ABE). Let’s walk through each statement to explain why:
Option A: "Aime Cesaire is best known for the term ‘negritude’"
True: Aime Cesaire, along with Léopold Sédar Senghor and Léon-Gontran Damas, co-founded the Negritude movement, which celebrated Black identity and rejected colonialism.
Option B: "Aime Cesaire was influenced by the Harlem Renaissance"
True: Cesaire drew inspiration from the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural and intellectual movement that celebrated African-American identity and pride. Writers like Langston Hughes and Claude McKay influenced his literary and political work.
Option C: "Aime Cesaire wrote Wretched of the Earth"
False: The Wretched of the Earth (1961) was written by Frantz Fanon, not Aime Cesaire. Fanon was Cesaire's student, but the book belongs to Fanon’s anti-colonial legacy.
Option D: "Aime Cesaire was a feminist writer"
False: Although Cesaire supported liberation movements, he is not specifically regarded as a feminist writer. His work focused more on colonialism, racism, and cultural identity rather than feminist themes.
Option E: "Aime Cesaire argued that colonialism was never a benevolent enterprise"
True: This is a central argument in his essay Discourse on Colonialism (1950), where he condemns colonialism as exploitative and violent rather than benevolent.
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