Caribbean
Martinique
Negritude
French
Poetry
The complete poems of Aimé Césaire, including Notebook of a Return to the Native Land and the later lyrics. Césaire co-founded Negritude and served as mayor of Fort-de-France for 56 years.
Literary Significance
Césaire is one of the 20th century's great poets in any language; his Notebook is one of the supreme acts of poetic decolonization
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editorial-summarynot primary textThe complete poems of Aimé Césaire, including Notebook of a Return to the Native Land and the later lyrics. Césaire co-founded Negritude and served as mayor of Fort-de-France for 56 years. Césaire is one of the 20th century's great poets in any language; his Notebook is one of the supreme acts of poetic decolonization
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