Aime Cesaire has been described by the Times Literary Supplement as
likely to "figure alongside the Eliot-Pound-Yeats triumvirate that
has dominated official poetic culture for more than fifty years".
He was a cofounder and exponent of the concept of negritude and is
a major spiritual, political, and literary figure.
Cesaire has been read politically as a poet of revolutionary
zeal since the 1960s. This collection, the only one in existence in
any language to give a truly comprehensive retrospective of
Cesaire's poetic production, demonstrates the narrowness of earlier
readings that grew out of the climate of Black Power influenced by
the essays of Frantz Fanon, another Martinican, who was largely
responsible for the ambient view of Csaire a generation ago. It is
the first collection to translate And the Dogs Were Silent and i,
laminaria...
Lyric and Dramatic Poetry, 1946-82 goes beyond anything else in
print (in French or in English) in that it locates the issues of
Cesaire's struggle with an emerging postmodern vision. It will
place Cesaire in a strategic position in the current debate in the
U.S. over emergent literature and will show him to be a major
figure in the conflict between tradition and contemporary cultural
identity.
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