Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Other Poems

by Aimé Césaire

Annette Smith and Dominic Thomas's new translations of Aim? C?saire's Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Solar Throat Slashed (poems deleted) expose to a new audience a pivotal figure in twentieth-century French literature. This collection presents the early and last stages of a po­et's course, encapsulating in one volume C?saire's entire literary career and creative evolution as perhaps the only French poet writing simultaneously at the crossroads of the avant-garde and classical movements.

This volume's inclusion of previously deleted poems from Solar Throat Slashed is politically important; despite their initial exclusion from a French republication of Soleil Cou Coup? in 1961, these thirty-one poems are crucial to understanding C?saire's legacy and remain of tremendous pertinence today as they provide helpful ways of thinking about and contextualizing discussions on race, identity, global identities, and the links between "black conscious­ness" and "social consciousness."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810128969
• ISBN13: 9780810128965
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"