Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr
Date Published: 2001-09-24
ISBN-13:9780819564528ISBN:0819564524
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Wesleyan
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780819564528ISBN:0819564524
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Univ Pr of New England
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780819564528ISBN:0819564524
Description: New. Aime Cesaire'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 Cesaire's quest for negritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. With its... read more
"I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger."
"Interesting, but not outstanding. I appreciate it as an excellent example of capital-S Surrealism (especially with the breathless piling on of images in the third, and most interesting, part), but, as with a lot of surrealism, the emotional core has a hard time shining through the visuals. It does make me want to read a little more on negritude, tho."
"I found it useful, if not productive, to read Breton's Introduction--if not Cesaire's work (in French, _maybe_)--alongside the first chapter of Fanon's BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS titled "The Black Man and Language.""
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