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Solar Throat Slashed (Hardcover, Bilingual)
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Solar Throat Slashed (Hardcover, Bilingual)
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List price R769
Loot Price R584
Discovery Miles 5 840
You Save R185 (24%)
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Soleil cou coupe (Solar Throat Slashed) is Aime Cesaire's most
explosive collection of poetry. Animistically dense, charged with
eroticism and blasphemy, and imbued with an African and Vodun
spirituality, this book takes the French surrealist adventure to
new heights and depths. A Cesaire poem is an intersection at which
metaphoric traceries create historically aware nexuses of thought
and experience, jagged solidarity, apocalyptic surgery, and solar
dynamite. The original 1948 French edition of Soleil cou coupe has
a dense magico-religious frame of reference. In the late 1950s,
Cesaire was increasingly politically focused and seeking a wider
audience, when he, in effect, gelded the 1948 text--eliminating 31
of the 72 poems, and editing another 29. Until now, only the
revised 1961 edition, called Cadastre, has been translated. The
revised text lacks the radical originality of Soleil cou coupe.
This Wesleyan edition presents all the original poems en face with
the new English translations. Includes an introduction by A. James
Arnold and notes by Clayton Eshleman.
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