Description: 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 introduction, and extensive commentary, making it a magisterial edition of Césaire's surrealist masterpiece.
Review Quotes: "Davis has not merely translated a great work of modernist poetry and an essential document in postcolonial history; he has created a present-day source of timely dissent."--David B. Hobbs "The Nation"