Lyric and Dramatic Poetry, 1946-82

by Aimé Césaire, Annette Smith, Clayton Eshleman

Book Overview

Cesaire has been read politically as a poet of revolutionary zeal since the 1960s. This collection, a retrospective of Cesaire's poetic production demonstrates the narrowness of earlier readings that grew out of the climate of Black Power influenced by the essays of Franz Fanon, another Martinican, who was largely responsible for the ambient view of Cesaire a generation ago. It is the first collection to translate And the Dogs Were Silent and i, laminaria...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813912563
• ISBN13: 9780813912561
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher