......And the dogs were silent = ......Et les chiens se taisaient / Aimé Césaire ; translated and with an introduction by Alex Gil ; foreword by Brent Hayes Edwards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Césaire, Aimé, author.

Contributor:

Gil, Alex, 1973- translator.

Edwards, Brent Hayes, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Césaire, Aimé. Et les chiens se taisaient--Criticism, Textual.

Césaire, Aimé.

Césaire, Aimé. Et les chiens se taisaient (1943)--Criticism, Textual.

Martinican drama (French)--History and criticism.

Martinican drama (French).

Negritude (Literary movement).

Postcolonialism in literature.

Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804--Drama.

Haiti.

Genre:

tragedies.

Drama.

Tragedies (Drama)

Physical Description:

xxii, 298 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

And the dogs were silent

Et les chiens se taisaient

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"This volume is Alexander Gil's translation of Martiniquan poet and statesman Aimé Césaire's three act drama Et les chiens se taisaient. Césaire worked on several versions of this play during the 1940s and 1950s and the version translated here differs from all previously published versions. Gil's translation offers a precise historical source for Césaire's poetic and dramatic reflections on Black anti-colonial rebellion: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution. The original document on which this translation is based survives today in the municipal library of the small French town of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges as a 107-page typescript with handwritten corrections and edits. This version also incorporates Césaire's own editing marks. This first translation of Et les chiens se taisaient will be in both French and English. Gil's extensive introduction unpacks the historical significance of this specific version of the play and his translation, and the manuscript will also include a preface by Brent Hayes Edwards"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Brent Hayes Edwards

Introduction: The making and remaking of ......Et les chiens se taisaient / Alex Gil

......And the Dogs Were Silent

......Et les chiens se taisaient.

Notes:

"This original version of "Et les chiens se taisaient" was written by Aimé Césaire between 1941 and 1943. A later version, revised by the author, was published in Paris by Éditions Gallimard in 1970 within the volume titled Les armes miraculeuses, ©Éditions Gallimard, 1970. This bilingual edition by arrangement with Éditions Gallimard"--ECIP title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Container of: Césaire, Aimé. Et les chiens se taisaient (1943).

Container of: Césaire, Aimé. Et les chiens se taisaient (1943). English (Gil)

Other Format:

Online version: Césaire, Aimé. .....And the dogs were silent.

ISBN:

9781478030645

147803064X

9781478026419

1478026413

OCLC:

1428713711