This edition, containing an extensive introduction, notes, the French original, and a new translation of C?saire's poetrythe complex and challenging later works as well as the famous Notebookwill remain the definitive C?saire in English.
Aimé Césairewas a Francophone and French poet, author and politician from Martinique. He was "one of the founders of the négritude movement in Francophone literature".
Introduction
NOTEBOOK OF A RETIJRN TO TilE NATIVE LAND
THE MIRACULOUS WEAPONS
Gunnery Warning
The Thoroughbreds
Have No Mercy
Serpent Sun
Sentence
Poem for the Dawn
Visitation
Mythology
Perdition
Survival
Beyond
The Miraculous Weapons
Prophecy
Night Tom-Tom
Nostalgic
The Automatic Crystal
Conquest of a Dawn
Debris
Investiture
The Virgin Forest
Another Season
Day and Night
Annunciation
Tom-Tom
Tom-Tom
High Noon
Batouque
Les oubliettes de la mer et du deluge
La femme et le couteau
Postface: Mythe
SOLEIL COU COUPE
Magique
La parole aux oricous
La loi est nue
Allure
Desastre tangible
Entre autres massacres
Le griffon
Rachat
Mississippi
Blues de la pluie
Le bouc emissaire
Fils de la foudre
Ex-voto pour un naufrage
Millibars de l'orage
Chevelure
La tomade
Totem
Samba
Interlude
La roue
Calme
An neuf
Depuis Akkad, depuis Elam, depuis Sumer
A l' Afrique
Demons
Marais nocturne
Couteaux midi
Aux ecluses du vide
Quelconque
Ode a la Guinee
Cheval
Solei[ et eau
Marche des perturbations
The Oubliettes of the Sea and the Deluge
The Woman and the Knife
Postface: Myth
SOLAR TIIROAT SLASHED
Magic
The Oricous Have the Floor
The Law Is NakelĂ)
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