Authors: Aime Cesaire, Clayton Eshleman, Annette Smith
ISBN-13: 9780819564528, ISBN-10: 0819564524
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Date Published: September 2001
Edition: 1st Edition
Aime Cesaire is most well-known as the co-creator (with Leopold Senghor) of the concept of negritude. A member of the Communist party and active supporter of a progressive Socialist movement in his native Martinique, Cesaire wrote Notebook of a Return to the Native Land at the end of World War II. Clayton Eshleman, Professor of English at Eastern Michigan University, has published eleven books of poetry since 1968. He has translated works by Antonin Artaud, Bernard Bador, Michel Deguy, Vladimir Holan, and Pablo Neruda. He is also the foremost American translator of Cesar Vallejo (with Jose Rubia Barcia). Annette Smith, born in Algeria, is an Associate Professor of French at the California Institute of Technology. Eshleman and Smith translated Aime Cesaire: The Collected Poetry (1985).
Cesaire's masterpiece that reaches the powerful and overlooked aspects of black culture.