Overview
Region
Caribbean
Martinique
Era
Negritude
Language
French
Genre
Poetry
About This Work
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