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Notebook of Return to My Native Land

Notebook of Return to My Native Land
Notebook of Return to My Native Land

Césaire's famous poem has been described as a 'seminal text in Surrealist, French and Black literatures'.

Submitted by red jack on December 22, 2016

With unusual juxtapositions of object and metaphor, a bouquet of language-play, and deeply resonant rhythms, Césaire considered this work a “break into the forbidden,” at once a cry of rebellion and a celebration of black identity.

  • poetry
  • Aimé Césaire
  • colonialism
  • Surrealism

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