Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Césaire, Aimé

Publication

Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Eshleman, Clayton
• Arnold, A. James (Albert James), 1939-
• Césaire, Aimé.

Description

xxii, 73 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

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 inticolonialist rhetoric - material that Césaire only added in 1956. The original 1939 version of the poem, 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 Wilfredo Lam, and an introduction, notes, and chronology by A. James Arnold. --from inside jacket.

Series Statement

Wesleyan poetry

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Wesleyan poetry

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• In English and French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / by A. James Arnold -- Cahier d'un retour au pays natal -- Notebook of a Return to the native land -- Appendix: Cesaire's Cahier in Translation / by A. James Arnold ; Comments on the translations ; Notes on the translation -- Chronology.

ISBN

• 9780819573704 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0819573701 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780819573711 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013002821

OCLC

• 810111367
• SCSB-11862773

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library