{"product_id":"notebook-of-a-return-to-my-native-land-by-aime-cesaire-9781852241841","title":"Notebook of a Return to My Native Land","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrench-English bilingual edition. André Breton called Césaire's \u003cem\u003eCahier\u003c\/em\u003e '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 time in Bloodaxe's bilingual Contemporary French Poets series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAimé Césaire (1913-2008) was born in Basse-Pointe, a village on the north coast of Martinique, a former French colony in the Caribbean (now an overseas département of France). His book \u003cem\u003eDiscourse on Colonialism\u003c\/em\u003e (1950) is a classic of French political literature. \u003cem\u003eNotebook of a Return to My Native Land\u003c\/em\u003e (1956) is the foundation stone of francophone Black literature: it is here that the word Négritude appeared for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNégritude has come to mean the cultural, philosophical, and political movement co-founded in Paris in the 1930s by three Black students from French colonies: the poets Léon-Gontran Damas from French Guiana; Léopold Senghor, later President of Senegal; and Aimé Césaire, who became a deputy in the French National Assembly for the Revolutionary Party of Martinique and was repeatedly elected Mayor of Fort-de-France.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs a poet, Césaire believed in the revolutionary power of language, and in the \u003cem\u003eNotebook\u003c\/em\u003e he combined high literary French with Martinican colloquialisms, and archaic turns of phrase with dazzling new coinages. The result is a challenging and deeply moving poem on the theme of the future of the negro race, which presents and enacts the poignant search for a Martinican identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eNotebook\u003c\/em\u003e opposes the ideology of colonialism by inventing a language that refuses assimilation to a dominant cultural norm, a language that teaches resistance and liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597359431916,"sku":"9781852241841","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/a141094597cd69199781f30af7ffebcd.jpg?v=1777959365","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/notebook-of-a-return-to-my-native-land-by-aime-cesaire-9781852241841","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}