Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Other Poems - Couverture souple

Césaire, Aimé

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0810128969 ISBN 13 : 9780810128965

Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Annette Smith and Dominic Thomas's new translations of Aimé Césaire's Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Solar Throat Slashed (poems deleted) expose to a new audience a pivotal figure in twentieth-century French literature. This collection presents the early and last stages of a po­et's course, encapsulating in one volume Césaire's entire literary career and creative evolution as perhaps the only French poet writing simultaneously at the crossroads of the avant-garde and classical movements.

This volume's inclusion of previously deleted poems from Solar Throat Slashed is politically important; despite their initial exclusion from a French republication of Soleil Cou Coupé in 1961, these thirty-one poems are crucial to understanding Césaire's legacy and remain of tremendous pertinence today as they provide helpful ways of thinking about and contextualizing discussions on race, identity, global identities, and the links between "black conscious­ness" and "social consciousness."

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

AIMÉ CÉSAIRE (1913-2008) was a poet and politician from the French Carib­bean island of Martinique. A teacher of Frantz Fanon, he was one of the founders of the négritude movement.

ANNETTE SMITH is a professor of literature emerita at CalTech.

DOMINIC THOMAS is a professor of French and francophone studies and of comparative literature at UCLA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Northwestern University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0810128969
• ISBN 13: 9780810128965
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
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• Personne responsable: non disponible