The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land: Bilingual Edition by Aimé Césaire

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

Wesleyan Poetry

Aimé Césaire with Clayton Eshleman (Translator), A. James Arnold (Translator)

120 pages first pub 1939 (editions)

nonfiction classics poetry challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
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Aimé Césaire'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 Césaire's quest for negritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. Comm...

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reflective 84%
challenging 65%
emotional 57%
dark 44%
inspiring 44%
sad 28%
tense 28%
hopeful 15%
adventurous 10%
informative 7%
mysterious 5%
funny 2%

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fast 41%
slow 8%

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