Cahier d'un retour au pays natal. English

Notebook of a return to the native land / Aimé Césaire ; translated and edited by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith ; [with an introduction by André Breton].

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2001.

xix, 66 pages ; 22 cm.

BEIN Zab Es35 2001N: Paperbound Numberline on title page verso indicates fifth printing: "10 9 8 7 6 5." . Signed by the Clayton Eshleman. From the library of Clayton Eshleman.

"Aime Cesaire is most well known as the co-creator (with Leopold Senghor) of the concept of negritude. His long poem Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, written at the end of World War II, is a masterpiece of immense cultural significance and beauty and became an anthem of Blacks around the world. Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith achieve a laudable adaptation of Cesaire's work to English by clarifying double meanings, stretching syntax, and finding equivalent English puns, all while remaining remarkably true to the French text. Andre Breton's introduction, "A Great Black Poet," situates the text and provides a moving tribute to Cesaire."--Jacket.

English

March 25, 2013

Includes bibliographical references.

Notebook of a Return to the Native Land 1.

Poems.