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Books by Aime Cesaire
  | | The Tragedy of King Christophe (Northwestern World Classics) by Aime Cesaire, Paul Breslin, Rachel Ney, Aimã Cã Saire Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2015 by Northwestern University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-3058-6, ISBN: 0-8101-3058-0 "The Tragedy of King Christophe (1963, revised 1970) is recognized as the Martiniquan writer and activist Aime Cesaire's greatest play. Set in the period of upheaval in Haiti after the assassination of Jean-Jacques Dessalines in 1806, it follows the historical figure of Henri Christophe, a slave who rose to become a general in Toussaint Louverture's army. Christophe declared himself king in 1811 and ruled the northern part of Haiti until ..." |
 | | Notebook of a Return to the Native Land(1st Edition) (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Aime Cesaire, Clayton Eshleman, Annette Smith, Aimã Cã Saire, Andre Breton, Annette Gail Smith Paperback, 66 Pages, Published 2001 by Wesleyan University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6452-8, ISBN: 0-8195-6452-4 "Aimé Césaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. The long poem was the beginning of Césaire's quest for négritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. With its emphasis on unusual juxtapositions of object and metaphor, manipulation of language into puns and neologisms, and rhythm, Césaire considered his style a "beneficial madness" that could "bre ..." |
 | | Return to my Native Land by Aime Cesaire, John Berger, Peter De Francia, Anna Bostock Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2014 by Archipelago ISBN-13: 978-1-935744-94-8, ISBN: 1-935744-94-1 "A work of immense cultural significance and beauty, this long poem became an anthem for the African diaspora and the birth of the Negritude movement. With unusual juxtapositions of object and metaphor, a bouquet of language-play, and deeply resonant rhythms, Cesaire considered this work a "break into the forbidden," at once a cry of rebellion and a celebration of black identity. More praise: "The greatest living poet in the French langu ..." |
 | | Notebook of a Return to My Native Land Cahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal (Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets) (English and French Edition) by Aime Cesaire, Mireille Rosello, Annie Pritchard, Aimé Césaire, Tim Mathews, Michael Worton, Aimã Cã Saire, Aimeâ Ceâ Saire, Aimâe Câesaire Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1995 by Bloodaxe Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-85224-184-1, ISBN: 1-85224-184-5 "French-English bilingual edition. Andre Breton called Cesaire's Cahier 'nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of this time'. It is a seminal text in Surrealist, French and Black literatures - published in full in English for the first time in Bloodaxe's bilingual Contemporary French Poets series. Aime Cesaire (1913-2008) was born in in Basse-Pointe, a village on the north coast of Martinique, a former French colony in the Cari ..." |
 | | Discourse on Colonialism(Updated) by Joan Pinkham, Aime Cesaire, Aimã Cã Saire Paperback, 102 Pages, Published 2001 by Monthly Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58367-025-5, ISBN: 1-58367-025-4 ""Césaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a process in which [he] played a prominent role." --Library Journal This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later, when published for the first time in Eng ..." |
 | | A Season in the Congo(Reprint) (The French List) by Aime Cesaire, Aimã Cã Saire, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2018 by Seagull Books ISBN-13: 978-0-85742-487-7, ISBN: 0-85742-487-4 "This play by renowned poet and political activist Aime Césairerecounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo Republic and an African nationalist hero. A Season in the Congofollows Lumumba’s efforts to free the Congolese from Belgian rule and the political struggles that led to his assassination in 1961. Césaire powerfully depicts Lumumba as a sympathetic, Christ-like figure whose conscious martyrdom ..." |
 | | Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire, Joan Pinkham, Aimac Cacsaire, Aim CSaire Paperback, 79 Pages, Published 1972 by Monthly Review Press ISBN-13: 978-0-85345-226-3, ISBN: 0-85345-226-1 ""Césaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a process in which [he] played a prominent role." --Library Journal This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later, when published for the first time in Englis ..." |
 | | The French List Ser. A Season in the Congo by Aime Cesaire Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2020 by Seagull Books London Ltd, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-0-85742-757-1, ISBN: 0-85742-757-1 "Césaire's ardent personal opposition to Western imperialism and racism fuels both his profound sympathy for Lumumba and the emotional strength of A Season in the Congo." |
 | | Resolutely Black(1st Edition) Conversations with Francoise Verges (Critical South) by Aime Cesaire, Matthew Smith, Aimand#38, Cand#38 Hardcover, 150 Pages, Published 2019 by Polity ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-3714-3, ISBN: 1-5095-3714-7 "Aimé Césaire’s work is foundational for decolonial and postcolonial thought. His Discourse on Colonialism, first published in 1955, influenced generations of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean and it remains a classic of anticolonial thought. His notion of the boomerang-effect of slavery and colonialism and his scathing critique of the French left for its failure ..." |
 | | Cahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal(2nd Edition) (English and French Edition) by Aime Cesaire, Abiola Irele Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2000 by Ohio State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8142-5020-4, ISBN: 0-8142-5020-3 "Born in 1913 in Martinique, Aim Csaire is acknowledged as one of the major poets of the twentieth century writing in French, and his celebrated long poem, Cahier dun retour au pays natal (Notebook of a return to the native land), is his best known work. In addition to containing the most forceful statement of Ngritude (a term coined by Csaire and appearing in print for the first time in this poem), Cahier is a masterpiece of modern Fren ..." |
 | | A tempest(Updated) Based on Shakespeare's The tempest : adaptation for a Black theatre (Ubu Repertory Theater publications) by Aime Cesaire, Aimeì CeìSaire, Aimé Césaire, William Shakespeare, Aimac Cacsaire, Aimâe Câesaire Paperback, 75 Pages, Published 1986 by G. Borchardt ISBN-13: 978-0-913745-15-1, ISBN: 0-913745-15-4 "A troupe of black actors perform their own Tempest. The play explores the political and cultural conflicts opposing the white master, Prospero, his mulatto servant, Ariel, and the black slave Caliban. Csaire's rich and insightful adaptation draws on contemporary Caribbean society, the Afro-American experience and African mythology to raise questions about colonialism, racism, and their lasting effects. From Martinique. 3 acts. 4f, 14m." |
 | | Une Tempete (French Edition) by Aime Cesaire Paperback, 91 Pages, Published 1975 by French & European Pubns ISBN-13: 978-0-8288-9087-8, ISBN: 0-8288-9087-0 |
 | | Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Other Poems (Avant-Garde & Modernism Collection) by Aime Cesaire, Annette Smith, Dominic Thomas, Aimã Cã Saire, Aimae Caesaire Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2013 by Northwestern University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-2896-5, ISBN: 0-8101-2896-9 "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 th ..." |
 | | Une Tempete by Aime Cesaire Published by 0 ISBN-13: 978-0-200-31431-2, ISBN: 0-200-31431-9 |
 | | Journal of a Homecoming / Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (English and French Edition) by Aimã Cã Saire, Aime Cesaire, Francis Abiola Irele, N. Gregson Davis Hardcover, 364 Pages, Published 2017 by Duke University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6874-8, ISBN: 0-8223-6874-9 "Originally published in 1939, Aime Cesaire's Cahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding text of the Negritude movement. This bilingual edition features a new authoritative translation, revised introduction, and extensive commentary, making it a magisterial edition of Cesaire's surrealist masterpiece." |
 | | Cahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal by Aime Cesaire Paperback, 93 Pages, Published 2015 by French & European Pubns ISBN-13: 978-0-7859-9262-2, ISBN: 0-7859-9262-6 |
 | | Return to my Native Land by Aime Cesaire 88 Pages, Published 2014 by Archipelago ISBN-13: 978-1-935744-95-5, ISBN: 1-935744-95-X "My far distant happiness which makes me aware of my true misery: a lumpy road plunging into a hollow where it scatters a handful of huts: a tireless road charging at full speed towards a hill at whose top it is brutally drowned in a stagnant pool ..." |
 | | A Season in the Congo(1st Edition) (SB-The French List) by Aime Cesaire, Aimã Cã Saire, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Aimac Cacsaire Hardcover, 158 Pages, Published 2010 by Seagull Books ISBN-13: 978-1-905422-94-4, ISBN: 1-905422-94-6 " This play by renowned poet and political activist Aime Césaire recounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo Republic and an African nationalist hero. A Season in the Congo follows Lumumba’s efforts to free the Congolese from Belgian rule and the political struggles that led to his assassination in 1961. Césaire powerfully depicts Lumumba as a sympathetic, Christ-like figure whose conscious martyrd ..." |
 | | Holt McDougal Library, High School with Connections Individual Reader The Tempest 2002 by Mcdougal Littel, William Shakespeare, Holt Mcdougal, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Strachey, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Aime Cesaire, Norrie Epstein Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2001 by Mcdougal Littel ISBN-13: 978-0-618-16122-5, ISBN: 0-618-16122-8 "... Alastair Reid and Nathaniel Tarn . Reprinted by permission of Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells , S . A . , and Jonathan Cape , Ltd . , a division of Random House , UK . Cover illustration by Michael Steirnagle . 2004 Impression Warning : No ..." |
 | | Postcolonial Paradoxes in French Caribbean Writing(1st Edition) Césaire, Glissant, Condé by Jeannie Suk, Aime Cesaire Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2001 by Clarendon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-816018-2, ISBN: 0-19-816018-6 "This book is the first major study of French Caribbean literature in light of the concept of postcoloniality. Postcolonial theory debates have developed in the anglophone domain, and have not as yet referred prominently to francophone literature. Jeannie Suk investigates how the literature of Martinique and Guadeloupe provides a kaleidescopic view of the paradoxes at the heart of postcoloniality. Through subtle and provocative readings ..." |
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