Aimé Césaire

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

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Aim¿¿ire'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 C¿ire's quest for n¿itude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. Commentary on C¿ire's work has often focused on its Cold War and anticolonialist rhetoric¿material that C¿ire 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, a… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Arnold, James (Hrsg.) / Eshleman, Clayton (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-8195-7370-4
EAN: 9780819573704
Produktnummer: 13690028
Verlag: Wesleyan Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 120 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B16.3 cm x D1.4 cm 304 g
Auflage: Bilingual Frenc
Gewicht: 304

Über den Autor

AIME CESAIRE (1913-2008) was best known as the cocreator of the concept of negritude. CLAYTON ESHLEMAN is a professor emeritus at Eastern Michigan University and the foremost American translator of Aime Cesaire. He is the author of The Grindstone of Rapport / A Clayton Eshleman Reader and translator of The Complete Poetry of Cesar Vallejo. A. JAMES ARNOLD is an emeritus professor of French at the University of Virginia. He is the lead editor of Cesaire's complete literary works in French (in progress) and author of Modernism and Negritude: The Poetry and Poetics of Aime Cesaire.