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Journal of a Homecoming / Cahier d'un retour au pays natal Aime Cesaire

Journal of a Homecoming / Cahier d'un retour au pays natal By Aime Cesaire

Journal of a Homecoming / Cahier d'un retour au pays natal by Aime Cesaire

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Originally published in 1939, Aime Cesaire's Cahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding text of the Negritude movement. This bilingual edition features a new authoritative translation, revised introduction, and extensive commentary, making it a magisterial edition of Cesaire's surrealist masterpiece.

Journal of a Homecoming / Cahier d'un retour au pays natal Summary

Journal of a Homecoming / Cahier d'un retour au pays natal by Aime Cesaire

Originally published in 1939, Aime Cesaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding text of the Negritude movement. This bilingual edition features a new authoritative translation, revised introduction, and extensive commentary, making it a magisterial edition of Cesaire's surrealist masterpiece.

Journal of a Homecoming / Cahier d'un retour au pays natal Reviews

Davis has not merely translated a great work of modernist poetry and an essential document in postcolonial history; he has created a present-day source of timely dissent. -- David B. Hobbs * The Nation *
This is the best poem ever written. -- Juliana Spahr * Artforum *
This edition is without a doubt destined to become a point of reference for every reader of the book as well as for those who dedicate their research to the work of Aime Cesaire, and well beyond the English-speaking world. (translated from the French) -- Giuseppe Sofo * Etudes Litteraires Africaines *
Unparalleled in mid-20th century French literature. . . . -- Tim Keane * Hyperallergic *

About Aime Cesaire

Aime Cesaire (1913-2008) was a Martinican poet, critic, essayist, playwright, and statesman; a founder of the Negritude movement; and one of the most influential Francophone Caribbean intellectuals of the twentieth century.

N. Gregson Davis is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities at Duke University.

F. Abiola Irele (1936-2017) was Associate of the Hutchins Center at Harvard University and had previously taught at the University of Ibadan, Ohio State University, Harvard University, and Kwara State University.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface / F. Abiola Irele ix
Translator's Preface / N. Gregson Davis xi
Introduction 1
Journal of a Homecoming / Cahier d'un retour au pays natal 75
Commentary and Notes 151
Bibliography 295

Additional information

NGR9780822368960
9780822368960
082236896X
Journal of a Homecoming / Cahier d'un retour au pays natal by Aime Cesaire
Aime Cesaire
New
Paperback
Duke University Press
20171110
328
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