The original 1939 Notebook of a return to the native land / Aimé Césaire ; translated and edited by A. James Arnold and Clayton Eshleman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Césaire, Aimé

Contributor:

Arnold, A. James (Albert James), 1939- translator, editor.

Eshleman, Clayton, translator, editor.

Series:

Wesleyan poetry

Language:

English

French

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxii, 73 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Bilingual edition.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

In English and French.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Original French text published under title: Cahier d'un retour au pays natal.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Césaire, Aimé. Poems. Selections

Césaire, Aimé. Poems. Selections. English

ISBN:

9780819573704

0819573701

OCLC:

852014039