Annette Smith and Dominic Thomas's new translations of Aime
Cesaire's Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Solar Throat Slashed
(poems deleted) expose to a new audience a pivotal figure in
twentieth-century French literature. This collection presents the
early and last stages of a po-et's course, encapsulating in one
volume Cesaire's entire literary career and creative evolution as
perhaps the only French poet writing simultaneously at the
crossroads of the avant-garde and classical movements.
This volume's inclusion of previously deleted poems from Solar
Throat Slashed is politically important; despite their initial
exclusion from a French republication of Soleil Cou Coupe in 1961,
these thirty-one poems are crucial to understanding Cesaire's
legacy and remain of tremendous pertinence today as they provide
helpful ways of thinking about and contextualizing discussions on
race, identity, global identities, and the links between "black
conscious-ness" and "social consciousness."
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