Journal of a Homecoming / Cahier d'Un Retour Au Pays Natal

Originally published in 1939, Aim C saire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding text of the N gritude movement. This bilingual edition features a new authoritative translation, revised introduction, and extensive commentary, making it a magisterial edition of C saire's surrealist masterpiece.

ISBN-13: 9780822368960

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Duke University Press

Publication Date: 11-10-2017

Pages: 328

Product Dimensions: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.60d

Aimé Césaire (1913-2008) was a Martinican poet, critic, essayist, playwright, and statesman; a founder of the Négritude movement; and one of the most influential Francophone Caribbean intellectuals of the twentieth century.

N. Gregson Davis is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities at Duke University.

F. Abiola Irele (1936-2017) was Associate of the Hutchins Center at Harvard University and had previously taught at the University of Ibadan, Ohio State University, Harvard University, and Kwara State University.