The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land

The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land

Author: Aimé Césaire

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2013-08-12

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 081957371X

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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 négritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. Commentary on Césaire's work has often focused on its Cold War and anticolonialist rhetoric—material that Césaire 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.


Return to my Native Land

Return to my Native Land

Author: Aime Cesaire

Publisher: Archipelago

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 193574495X

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A work of immense cultural significance and beauty, this long poem became an anthem for the African diaspora and the birth of the Negritude movement. With unusual juxtapositions of object and metaphor, a bouquet of language-play, and deeply resonant rhythms, Césaire considered this work a "break into the forbidden," at once a cry of rebellion and a celebration of black identity. More praise: "The greatest living poet in the French language."--American Book Review "Martinique poet Aime Cesaire is one of the few pure surrealists alive today. By this I mean that his work has never compromised its wild universe of double meanings, stretched syntax, and unexpected imagery. This long poem was written at the end of World War II and became an anthem for many blacks around the world. Eshleman and Smith have revised their original 1983 translations and given it additional power by presenting Cesaire's unique voice as testament to a world reduced in size by catastrophic events." --Bloomsbury Review "Through his universal call for the respect of human dignity, consciousness and responsibility, he will remain a symbol of hope for all oppressed peoples." --Nicolas Sarkozy "Evocative and thoughtful, touching on human aspiration far beyond the scale of its specific concerns with Cesaire's native land - Martinique." --The Times


The Collected Poetry

The Collected Poetry

Author: Aim C Saire

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1983-10-03

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780520907614

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This edition, containing an extensive introduction, notes, the French original, and a new translation of Césaire's poetry--the complex and challenging later works as well as the famous Notebook--will remain the definitive Césaire in English.


The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire

The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire

Author: Aimé Césaire

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2017-09-05

Total Pages: 991

ISBN-13: 0819577510

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The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire gathers all of Cesaire's celebrated verse into one bilingual edition. The French portion is comprised of newly established first editions of Césaire's poetic ouvre made available in French in 2014 under the title Poésie, Théâtre, Essais et Discours, edited by A. J. Arnold and an international team of specialists. To prepare the English translations, the translators started afresh from this French edition. Included here are translations of first editions of the poet's early work, prior to political interventions in the texts after 1955, revealing a new understanding of Cesaire's aesthetic and political trajectory. A truly comprehensive picture of Cesaire's poetry and poetics is made possible thanks to a thorough set of notes covering variants, historical and cultural references, and recurring figures and structures, a scholarly introduction and a glossary. This book provides a new cornerstone for readers and scholars in 20th century poetry, African diasporic literature, and postcolonial studies.


The Little Edges

The Little Edges

Author: Fred Moten

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2014-12-19

Total Pages: 91

ISBN-13: 0819575062

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Winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship (2016) The Little Edges is a collection of poems that extends poet Fred Moten's experiments in what he calls "shaped prose"—a way of arranging prose in rhythmic blocks, or sometimes shards, in the interest of audio-visual patterning. Shaped prose is a form that works the "little edges" of lyric and discourse, and radiates out into the space between them. As occasional pieces, many of the poems in the book are the result of a request or commission to comment upon a work of art, or to memorialize a particular moment or person. In Moten's poems, the matter and energy of a singular event or person are transformed by their entrance into the social space that they, in turn, transform. An online reader's companion is available at http://fredmoten.site.wesleyan.edu.


Corps Perdu

Corps Perdu

Author: Aimé Césaire

Publisher: New York : G. Braziller

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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A collection of ten poems Cesaire published in 1949, in an edition including thirty-two etchings by Picasso.


The Internet and the First Amendment

The Internet and the First Amendment

Author: Fred H. Cate

Publisher: Phi Delta Kappa International

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780873673983

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A legal history of the First Amendment examines how it pertains to the Internet and minors and discusses the legal ramifications of limiting access in libraries.


Grave of Light

Grave of Light

Author: Alice Notley

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780819567727

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Selected poems from a visionary feminist poet.


Running in the Family

Running in the Family

Author: Michael Ondaatje

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-03-23

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 0307776646

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In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India, " Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.


A Different Mirror

A Different Mirror

Author: Ronald Takaki

Publisher: eBookIt.com

Published: 2012-06-05

Total Pages: 787

ISBN-13: 1456611062

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Takaki traces the economic and political history of Indians, African Americans, Mexicans, Japanese, Chinese, Irish, and Jewish people in America, with considerable attention given to instances and consequences of racism. The narrative is laced with short quotations, cameos of personal experiences, and excerpts from folk music and literature. Well-known occurrences, such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the Trail of Tears, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Japanese internment are included. Students may be surprised by some of the revelations, but will recognize a constant thread of rampant racism. The author concludes with a summary of today's changing economic climate and offers Rodney King's challenge to all of us to try to get along. Readers will find this overview to be an accessible, cogent jumping-off place for American history and political science plus a guide to the myriad other sources identified in the notes.