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'The undisputed masterpiece of négritude and a poetic milestone of anti-colonialism' Guardian

'We shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout.'

This blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the négritude movement became a rallying cry for decolonisation when it appeared in 1939. Following one man's return from Europe to his homeland of Martinique, it is a reckoning with the trauma of slavery and exploitation, and a triumphant anthem for Black identity, one which reclaims and remakes language itself.

'Nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of this time' André Breton

'A Césaire poem explodes and whirls about itself like a rocket, suns burst forth whirling and exploding' Jean-Paul Sartre

'The most influential Francophone Caribbean writer of his generation' Independent

Translated by John Berger and Anna Bostock

 
 

Review

Nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of this time -- André Breton

A Césaire poem explodes and whirls about itself like a rocket, suns burst forth whirling and exploding -- Jean-Paul Sartre

The most influential Francophone Caribbean writer of his generation - Independent

Aime Césaire's brooding exploration of Negritude bristles with the energetic, unique qualities of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself . . . [Césaire's] protean lyric, filled with historical allusions, serves to exorcise individual and collective self-hatreds engendered by the psychological trauma of slavery and its aftermath - San Francisco Chronicle

One of the most powerful French poets of the century - New York Times Book Review

The poem pulls no punches. Now tremulous, now grating, the improvised text drums and jabs in spasmodic phrases and slogans. Each encounter, each twist of idiom, thrusts itself into the reader's mind as a fierce challenge to understand and to empathize -- Roger Cardinal - The Times Literary Supplement

A more razor-sharp encapsulation of the situation of African slavery could not be found - Quarterly Conversation

Edouard Glissant once wrote that everything begins with poetry. Aime Cesaire's epic poem was a true beginning in 1939... Return to my Native Land became the rallying cry of decolonization but the fact that it is still read means it has survived as poetry. This translation preserves its poetic force and its reissue is a welcome event 
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Return To My Native Land (penguin Modern Classics)

Return To My Native Land (penguin Modern Classics)

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  • ISBN: 9780241535394
  • Author: Aime Cesaire
  • Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Pages: 80
  • Format: Paperback
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'The undisputed masterpiece of négritude and a poetic milestone of anti-colonialism' Guardian

'We shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout.'

This blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the négritude movement became a rallying cry for decolonisation when it appeared in 1939. Following one man's return from Europe to his homeland of Martinique, it is a reckoning with the trauma of slavery and exploitation, and a triumphant anthem for Black identity, one which reclaims and remakes language itself.

'Nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of this time' André Breton

'A Césaire poem explodes and whirls about itself like a rocket, suns burst forth whirling and exploding' Jean-Paul Sartre

'The most influential Francophone Caribbean writer of his generation' Independent

Translated by John Berger and Anna Bostock

 
 

Review

Nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of this time -- André Breton

A Césaire poem explodes and whirls about itself like a rocket, suns burst forth whirling and exploding -- Jean-Paul Sartre

The most influential Francophone Caribbean writer of his generation - Independent

Aime Césaire's brooding exploration of Negritude bristles with the energetic, unique qualities of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself . . . [Césaire's] protean lyric, filled with historical allusions, serves to exorcise individual and collective self-hatreds engendered by the psychological trauma of slavery and its aftermath - San Francisco Chronicle

One of the most powerful French poets of the century - New York Times Book Review

The poem pulls no punches. Now tremulous, now grating, the improvised text drums and jabs in spasmodic phrases and slogans. Each encounter, each twist of idiom, thrusts itself into the reader's mind as a fierce challenge to understand and to empathize -- Roger Cardinal - The Times Literary Supplement

A more razor-sharp encapsulation of the situation of African slavery could not be found - Quarterly Conversation

Edouard Glissant once wrote that everything begins with poetry. Aime Cesaire's epic poem was a true beginning in 1939... Return to my Native Land became the rallying cry of decolonization but the fact that it is still read means it has survived as poetry. This translation preserves its poetic force and its reissue is a welcome event 

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