Toussaint Louverture
This book is the long-overdue publication in English of Aimé Césaire’s account of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the revolution in Saint-Domingue – a slave revolt against French colonial rule that led to the founding of the independent republic of Haiti. Saint-Domingue was the first country in modern times to confront the colonial question in practice and in all its complexity. When Toussaint Louverture burst onto the historical stage, various political movements already existed for political autonomy, free trade and social equality. But the French Revolution established a compelling understanding of universal liberty: the Declaration of Human Rights opened up the possibility of claims to liberty and equality by wealthy free Black men in the colony, claims which, when they could not be realized, led to the armed uprising of enslaved Blacks. A battle for the liberation of one class in colonial society resulted in a revolution to achieve equal rights for all men. And
Collected Poetry
This edition, containing an extensive introduction, notes, the French original, and a new translation of Cesaire's poetry - the complex and challenging later works as well as the famous Notebook - will remain the definitive Cesaire in English.
Season in the Congo
This play by renowned poet and political activist Aime Cesaire recounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Republic of the Congo and an African nationalist hero. A Season in the Congo follows Lumumba's efforts to ...
Tempest
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Discourse on Colonialism
'C saire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a process in which he] played a prominent role.' --Library Journal This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later, when published for the first time in English, Discourse on Colonialism inspired a new generation engaged in the Civil Rights, Black Power, and anti-war movements and has sold more than 75,000 copies to date. Aim C saire eloquently describes the brutal impact of capitalism and colonialism on both the colonizer and colonized, exposing the contradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of 'progress' and 'civilization' upon encountering the 'savage,' 'uncultured,' or 'primitive.' Here, C saire reaffirms African values, identity, and culture, and their relevance, reminding us that 'the
Resolutely Black
Aimé Césaire's work is foundational for decolonial and postcolonial thought. His¿Discourse on Colonialism, first published in 1955, influenced generations of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America,...
Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Other Poems
Annette Smith and Dominic Thomas's new translations of Aimé Césaire's Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Solar Throat Slashed expose to a new audience a pivotal figure in twentieth-century French literature. This collection presents the early and ...
The Great Camouflage
The Great Camouflage translates and assembles in one volume the seven articles Suzanne Csaire wrote for the cultural journal Tropiques. Csaire engages anthropology, esthetics, surrealism, history, and poetry as she grapples with questions of power...
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
Aimé Césaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. The long poem was the beginning of Césaire's quest for négritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. With ...
Journal of a Homecoming / Cahier D'un Retour Au Pays Natal
Originally published in 1939, AimÉ CÉsaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding text of the NÉgritude movement. This bilingual edition features a new authoritative translation, revised introductio...
Notebook of a Return to My Native Land
French-English bilingual edition. André Breton called Césaire's Cahier 'nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of this time'. It is a seminal text in Surrealist, French and Black literatures - published in full in English for the first ti...