The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Bilingual Edition)

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013. Bilingual edition. Hardcover. Fair/Very Good. 6x0x9. [COLONIALISM]. Eds. A. James Arnold, Clayton Eshleman. Aime Cesaire. "The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Bilingual Edition)." Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013. English and French languages. Hardcover in jacket. Text with black and white illustrations. 9.5 x 6.25 x 0.25 in. 23 x 16 x 1 cm. 11 oz. xxii, 73 pp. Red boards quarter bound in blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. Ink on inside front cover. Free front endpaper torn out. Main text clean. Ink on free back endpaper and inside back cover. Fair in Near Fine jacket. ISBN: 9780819573704."Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. This long poem was the beginning of Cesaire's quest for negritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. Commentary on Cesaire's work has often focused on its Cold War and anticolonialist rhetoric - material that Cesaire only added in 1956. The original 1939 version of the poem, given here in French, and in its first English translation, reveals a work that is both spiritual and cultural in structure, tone, and thrust. This Wesleyan edition includes the original illustrations by Wifredo Lam, and an introduction, notes, and chronology by A. James Arnold.