The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land Bilingual Edition

<![CDATA[Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. This long poem was the beginning of Cesaire's quest for negritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. Commentary on Cesaire's work h...

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Main Authors Césaire, Aimé, Arnold, A. James, Eshleman, Clayton
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
French
Published Middletown, CT. 06459 Wesleyan University Press 2013
Edition1
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French poetry-Translations into English
POETRY
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Summary:<![CDATA[Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. This long poem was the beginning of Cesaire's quest for negritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. Commentary on Cesaire's work has often focused on its Cold War and anticolonialist rhetoric--material that Cesaire only added in 1956. The original 1939 version of the poem, given here in French, and in its first English translation, reveals a work that is both spiritual and cultural in structure, tone, and thrust. This Wesleyan edition includes the original illustrations by Wifredo Lam, and an introduction, notes, and chronology by A. James Arnold.]]>
ISBN:9780819573704
0819573701