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Aime Cesaire
The only bilingual edition of this radically original collection
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Jane Hiddleston
Aime Cesaire is arguably the greatest Caribbean literary writer in history. Best known for his incendiary epic poem Notebook of a Return to my Native Land, Cesaire reinvented black culture…
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This edition, containing an extensive introduction, notes, the French original, and a new translation of Cesaire’s poetry - the complex and challenging later works as well as the famous Notebook…
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Aime Cesaire, Clayton Eshleman, A James Arnold
The definitive edition of the complete work of a master Caribbean poet
The Complete Poetry of Aime Cesaire gathers all of Cesaire's celebrated verse into one bilingual edition.
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Decryptez le Cahier d'un retour au pays natal avec l'analyse de Paideia education ! Que faut-il retenir de ce recueil de l'ecrivain Aime Cesaire ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous…
This book is the long-overdue publication in English of Aime Cesaire's account of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the revolution in Saint-Domingue - a slave revolt against French colonial…
A play that recounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo Republic and an African nationalist hero.
Nimrod
The only YA book to tell the story of Aime Cesaire, the rise of Negritude, and the crusade for Black African and Caribbean independence from colonial rule.
Aime Cesaire was…
Jason Allen-Paisant
In this inventive and thoughtful study, renowned poet Jason Allen-Paisant provides a timely critical reappraisal of Aime Cesaire's works. The book showcases Cesaire as a major Black thinker, whose writings…
This bilingual English and French edition of Aime Cesaire's three act drama .....And the Dogs Were Silent-written in 1943 and lost until 2008-dramatizes the Haitian Revolution and the rise of…
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This study approaches the theater of Derek Walcott and Aime Cesaire through the prism of relation (Edouard Glissant’s theory)-while also drawing upon Hegelian dialectics and the dramatic theory of Bertolt…
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Dans ce travail en trois parties, nous comparons les oeuvres de deux ecrivains, apparemment differents, le Martiniquais Aime Cesaire et le Marocain Mohammed Khair-Eddine. Nous nous concentrons sur leurs attitudes…
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
A brief biography of one of the most influential writers from the francophone Caribbean. Aime Cesaire was a poet, playwright and politician, who, along with Leon-Gontran Damas from French Guiana…
Gregson Davis (Duke University, North Carolina)
Aime Cesaire is arguably the best-known poet in the French Caribbean. Gregson Davis examines Cesaire’s extraordinary dual career as writer and elected politician. Cesaire, the acknowledged inventor of the famous…
La collection Connaitre une oeuvre vous offre la possibilite de tout savoir du recueil Cahier d'un retour au pays natal d'Aime Cesaire grace a une fiche de lecture aussi complete…
Venez decouvrir le Cahier d'un retour au pays natal de Aime Cesaire, grace a une analyse litteraire de reference ! Ecrite par un specialiste universitaire, cette fiche de lecture est…
‘We shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout.’ This blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the negritude movement became a rallying cry for decolonisation when it appeared in…
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Aime Cesaire’s Une Tempete , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
First TCG edition of this bestselling adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
A Tempest is Aime Cesaire’s anti-colonialist retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
This title describes the brutal impact of capitalism and colonialism on both the colonizer and the colonized, exposing the contradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of progress and civilisation.
Aurelia Kubayanda,Aurelia Kubayanda
Explores the poetry of Nicolas Guillen and Aime Cesaire as the exemplification of Negritude art and writing from the Caribbean. The book discusses the relationships between creative writing, the idea…
Abiola Irele,Irele Abiola
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Pierre Bouvier
Ils sont tous deux Martiniquais. Ils ont tous deux lutte contre le colonialisme et l'heritage de la traite et de l'esclavage. L'un est celebre par la Republique francaise (Cesaire), l'autre…
This title describes the brutal impact of capitalism and colonialism on both the colonizer and the colonized, exposing the contradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of progress and civilization.
Annette Smith and Dominic Thomas’s new translations of Aime Cesaire’s Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Solar Throat Slashed expose to a new audience a pivotal figure in twentieth-century French literature…
The Tragedy of King Christophe (1963, revised 1970) is recognized as the Martiniquan writer and activist Aime Cesaire’s greatest play. Set in the period of upheaval in Haiti after the…
Aimae Caesaire’s work is foundational for colonial and postcolonial thought. In this unique volume, his responses to Frandcoise Vergaes’ questions range over the origins of his political activism, the legacies…
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John Patrick Walsh
Offers a deeper understanding of the historical and contemporary problem of free and French in the Caribbean
Quirin Wildgen
Heute ist Martinique Teil von Frankreich. Die Auseinandersetzung mit der eigenen Identitat und der kolonialen Vergangenheit macht die Insel in der Karibik zu einem besonderen Teil europaischer Geschichte. Aime Cesaire…
A collection of ten poems Cesaire published in 1949, in an edition including thirty-two etchings by Picasso.
A collection of poems by the Martinician poet Aime Cesaire, who was read as a poet of revolutionary zeal during the Black Power movement of the 1960s. This collection is…
Victor Figueroa
This book examines the work of three major twentieth-century Caribbean poets: one Puerto Rican, one Martinician, and one Saint Lucian. Focusing on one major work by each poet, it follows…
Micha Luther
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Franzoesisch - Literatur, Note: 2,0, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Aime Cesaire, geboren im Jahr 1913 in Basse-Pointe, Martinique, war in…
Reiland Rabaka
The Negritude Movement provides readers with not only an intellectual history of the Negritude Movement but also its prehistory (W.E.B. Du Bois, the New Negro Movement, and the Harlem Renaissance)…
French-English bilingual edition. Andre Breton called Cesaire’s Cahier ‘nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of this time’. It is a seminal text in Surrealist, French and Black literatures -…
Cesaire’s masterpiece that reaches the powerful and overlooked aspects of black culture.
Originally published in 1939, Aime Cesaire’s Cahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding text of the Negritude movement. This bilingual edition…
