Notebook of a Return to the Native Land

Name: Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
Author: Aimé Césaire

by Aimé Césaire

Poetic meditation on Caribbean identity, Negritude, and return to native homeland

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Aimé Césaire

Martinican poet, playwright, and politician who co-founded the Négritude movement with Senghor. Discourse on Colonialism is a searing indictment of European civilization's colonial violence. His Notebook of a Return to the Native Land is the foundational poem of francophone Black literature.

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