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

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

Césaire, Aimé
Arnold, A. James
Eshleman, Clayton

Paperback

Series: Wesleyan Poetry

General Poetry

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ISBN10: 0819500666
ISBN13: 9780819500663
Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr
Published: Mar 7 2023
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.82
Language: English

The first bilingual edition of this radically original work

Aimé Césaire'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 Césaire's quest for négritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. Commentary on Césaire's work has often focused on its Cold War and anticolonialist rhetoric--material that Césaire 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.

Publication of this book is funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

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