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Return to my native land

Césaire, Aimé2023
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A work of immense cultural significance and beauty, this long poem became an anthem for the African diaspora and the birth of the Negritude movement. 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.
Main title:
Return to my native land / Aimé Césaire ; translated by John Berger, Anya Bostock.
Author:
Césaire, Aimé, authorBerger, John, translatorBostock, Anna, translator
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2023.
Collation:
80 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9780241535394 (pbk. :)
Language:
EnglishFrench
BRN:
2318013
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