| Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Other Poems Contributor(s): Cesaire, Aime (Author), Smith, Annette (Translator), Thomas, Dominic (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0810128969 ISBN-13: 9780810128965 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - French - Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American |
| Dewey: 841.914 |
| LCCN: 2012041527 |
| Series: Agm Collection |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.40 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Annette Smith and Dominic Thomas's new translations of Aimé Césaire's Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Solar Throat Slashed (poems deleted) expose to a new audience a pivotal figure in twentieth-century French literature. This collection presents the early and last stages of a poet's course, encapsulating in one volume Césaire's entire literary career and creative evolution as perhaps the only French poet writing simultaneously at the crossroads of the avant-garde and classical movements. This volume's inclusion of previously deleted poems from Solar Throat Slashed is politically important; despite their initial exclusion from a French republication of Soleil Cou Coupé in 1961, these thirty-one poems are crucial to understanding Césaire's legacy and remain of tremendous pertinence today as they provide helpful ways of thinking about and contextualizing discussions on race, identity, global identities, and the links between "black consciousness" and "social consciousness." |