Notebook of a Return to My Native Land: Cahier D'un Retour Au Pays Natal

Aimé Césaire

ISBN 10: 1852241845 / ISBN 13: 9781852241841

Published by Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1995

About this Item

This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:9781852241841.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Notebook of a Return to My Native Land: Cahier D'un Retour Au Pays Natal
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852241845
• ISBN 13: 9781852241841
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 300 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso

About the Author

Aime Cesaire (1913-2008) was born in Basse-Pointe, a village on the north coast of Martinique, a former French colony in the Caribbean (now an overseas departement of France). His book Discourse on Colonialism (1950) is a classic of French political literature. Notebook of a Return to My Native Land (1956) is the foundation stone of francophone Black literature: it is here that the word Negritude appeared for the first time. Negritude has come to mean the cultural, philosophical and political movement co-founded in Paris in the 1930s by three Black students from French colonies: the poets Leon-Gontran Damas from French Guiana; Leopold Senghor, later President of Senegal; and Aime Cesaire, who became a deputy in the French National Assembly for the Revolutionary Party of Martinique and was repeatedly elected Mayor of Fort-de-France. Cesaire attended high school and college in France, returning to Martinique during the Second World War. He was mayor of Fort-de-France from 1945 to 2001, except for a break from 1983 to 1984. He helped Martinique shed its colonial status in 1946 to become an overseas departement of France. He was affiliated with the French Communist Party early in his career but became disillusioned in the 1950s and founded the Martinique Progressive Party in 1958. He later allied with the Socialist Party in France's National Assembly, where he served from 1946 to 1956 and from 1958 to 1993. He died in 2008, aged 94.