Notebook of a return to the native land
By: Aimé Césaire ; translated and edited by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith ; [with an introduction by André Breton].
Contributors: Eshleman, Clayton.; Smith, Annette.
Series: Wesleyan poetry
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 66
Description: "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."--Cover page 4.