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Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
Aime Cesaire
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Description for Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
Paperback. Cesaire's masterpiece that reaches the powerful and overlooked aspects of black culture." Translator(s): Eshleman, Clayton. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 7. Weight in Grams: 140.
Aimé Césaire'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 Césaire's quest for négritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. With its emphasis on unusual juxtapositions of object and metaphor, manipulation of language into puns and neologisms, and rhythm, Césaire considered his style a "beneficial madness" that could "break into the forbidden" and reach the powerful and overlooked aspects of black culture.
Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith achieve a laudable adaptation of Césaire's work to English by clarifying ... Read more
Aimé Césaire'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 Césaire's quest for négritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. With its emphasis on unusual juxtapositions of object and metaphor, manipulation of language into puns and neologisms, and rhythm, Césaire considered his style a "beneficial madness" that could "break into the forbidden" and reach the powerful and overlooked aspects of black culture.
Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith achieve a laudable adaptation of Césaire's work to English by clarifying ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press United States
Number of pages
66
Condition
New
Number of Pages
100
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819564528
SKU
V9780819564528
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