The Original 1939 Notebook

Name: The Original 1939 Notebook
Author: Aime Cesaire

by Aime Cesaire

Early version of autobiographical poem asserting Black pride and dignity

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Aime Cesaire

Martinican poet and politician who co-founded the Negritude movement and wrote the surrealist epic Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, one of the most influential poems in twentieth-century world literature.

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