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A work of immense cultural significance and beauty, this long poem became an anthem for the African diaspora and the birth of the Negritude movement. With unusual juxtapositions of object and metaphor, a bouquet of language-play, and deeply resonant rhythms, C?saire considered... Read Full Overview

C saire's masterpiece that reaches the powerful and overlooked aspects of black culture.

Aim C saire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. The long poem was the beginning of C saire's... Read Full Overview

Originally published in 1939, Aim C saire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding text of the N gritude movement. This bilingual edition features a new authoritative translation, revised introduction, and extensive commentary,... Read Full Overview

The first bilingual edition of this radically original work

Aim C saire'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 C saire's quest for n gritude, and... Read Full Overview

French-English bilingual edition. Andr Breton called C saire's Cahier 'nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of this time'. It is a seminal text in Surrealist, French and Black literatures - published in full in English for the first time in Bloodaxe's bilingual Contemporary... Read Full Overview

Originally published in 1939, Aim C saire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding text of the N gritude movement. This bilingual edition features a new authoritative translation, revised introduction, and extensive commentary,... Read Full Overview