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A Pioneer Of The Negritude Movement, The French Caribbean Poet, Playwright, And Essayist Aime Cesaire Invested Even His Most Lyrical Writing With A Call For Revolution And Change In A Prejudiced And Flawed World. The Narrator Of His Landmark Work, The 1939 Epic Poem Cahier D'un Retour Au Pays Natal, Bitterly Confronts The Squalor And Spiritual Deprivation Of His Homeland, Martinique. In This Intense, Often Hermetic Poem The Cosmopolitan Protagonist's Search For Identity. Leads Him Back To His Origins And To A Revalorization Of Black Pride. Cesaire's Equally Engaging Plays Focus On Decolonization, Primarily The Point At Which Black Progressive Leaders Face Reactionary Opposition Among The Newly Autonomous Black People. Cesaire's Preoccupation With The Ideal Black Man--the Culture Hero--prompted His Dramatic Retelling Of The Stories Of Such Tragic Figures As The Haitian Revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, The Haitian King Henri. Christophe, And The Congolese Leader Patrice Lumumba, All Of Whom Experienced An Eminent Rise To Power And Then A Sudden Fall. In This First English-language Study Of Cesaire's Poetry Collections, Plays, And Notable Essays, Janis L. Pallister Looks At The Aut

Author

Janis L. Pallister

Publisher

New York: Twayne Publishers ; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805782660

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Humanities