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French-English bilingual edition. Andre Breton called Cesaire's
Cahier 'nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of this
time'. It is a seminal text in Surrealist, French and Black
literatures - published in full in English for the first time in
Bloodaxe's bilingual Contemporary French Poets series. Aime Cesaire
(1913-2008) was born in in Basse-Pointe, a village on the north
coast of Martinique, a former French colony in the Caribbean (now
an overseas departement of France). His book Discourse on
Colonialism (1950) is a classic of French political literature.
Notebook of a Return to My Native Land (1956) is the foundation
stone of francophone Black literature: it is here that the word
Negritude appeared for the first time. Negritude has come to mean
the cultural, philosophical and political movement co-founded in
Paris in the 1930s by three Black students from French colonies:
the poets Leon-Gontran Damas from French Guiana; Leopold Senghor,
later President of Senegal; and Aime Cesaire, who became a deputy
in the French National Assembly for the Revolutionary Party of
Martinique and was repeatedly elected Mayor of Fort-de-France. As a
poet, Cesaire believed in the revolutionary power of language, and
in the Notebook he combined high literary French with Martinican
colloquialisms, and archaic turns of phrase with dazzling new
coinages. The result is a challenging and deeply moving poem on the
theme of the future of the negro race which presents and enacts the
poignant search for a Martinican identity. The Notebook opposes the
ideology of colonialism by inventing a language that refuses
assimilation to a dominant cultural norm, a language that teaches
resistance and liberation.
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