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

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Aime Cesaire

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Paperback / softback

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

November 10th, 2017

Author

Aime Cesaire

Contributors

Introduction by Francis Abiola Irele
Translated by N Gregson Davis

Pages

328

Edition

Bilingual edition

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Illustrations

3 illustrations

Publisher

Duke University Press

Country of Publication

United States

Imprint

Duke University Press

ISBN-13

9780822368960

Product ID

26604782

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