Notebook of a return to the native land / Aimé Césaire ; translated and edited by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Césaire, Aimé

Contributor:

Eshleman, Clayton.

Smith, Annette.

Series:

Wesleyan poetry

Standardized Title:

Cahier d'un retour au pays natal. English

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xix, 66 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2001]

Summary:

Aime Cesaire is most well known as the cocreator (with Leopold Senghor) of the concept of negritude. His long poem Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, written at the end of World War II, is a masterpiece of immense cultural significance and beauty and became an anthem of Blacks around the world. Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith achieve a laudable adaptation of Cesaire's work to English by clarifying double meanings, stretching syntax, and finding equivalent English puns, all while remaining remarkably true to the French text. Andre Breton's introduction, "A Great Black Poet," situates the text and provides a moving tribute to Cesaire.

Contents:

Notebook of a Return to the Native Land 1.

ISBN:

0819564524

OCLC:

45743278