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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
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Manufacturer: Wesleyan University Press
Release date: 24 September 2001
ISBN-10 : 0819564524 | ISBN-13: 9780819564528
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Release date: 24 September 2001
ISBN-10 : 0819564524 | ISBN-13: 9780819564528
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