Aimé Césaire
A pioneer of the negritude movement, the French Caribbean poet, playwright, and essayist Aime Cesaire invested even his most lyrical writing with a call for revolution and change in a prejudiced and flawed world. The narrator of his landmark work, the 1939 epic poem Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, bitterly confronts the squalor and spiritual deprivation of his homeland, Martinique. In this intense, often hermetic poem the cosmopolitan protagonist's search for identity
Print Book, Multiple Languages, ©1991
Twayne Publishers ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, New York, Toronto, New York, ©1991