{"product_id":"notebook-of-a-return-to-the-native-land-wesleyan-poetry-series","title":"Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)","description":"Césaire's masterpiece that reaches the powerful and overlooked aspects of black culture.\n\nAimé 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 \"break into the forbidden\" and reach the powerful and overlooked aspects of black culture.\n\nClayton Eshleman and Annette Smith achieve a laudable adaptation of Césaire's work to English by clarifying double meanings, stretching syntax, and finding equivalent English puns, all while remaining remarkably true to the French text. Their treatment of the poetry is marked with imagination, vigor, and accuracy that will clarify difficulties for those already familiar with French, and make the work accessible to those who are not. André Breton's introduction, A Great Black Poet, situates the text and provides a moving tribute to Césaire.\n\nNotebook of a Return to the Native Land is recommended for readers in comparative literature, post-colonial literature, African American studies, poetry, modernism, and French.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0819564524\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: PKV.0819564524.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Eshleman, Clayton|Césaire, Aimé|Smith, Annette\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: A well-loved companion. Corners and cover might show a little wear, and you could find some notes or highlights. The dust jacket might be MIA, it might have been a library book and extras aren't guaranteed—but the story's all there!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Aspen Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52726851207455,"sku":"PKV.0819564524.G","price":8.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0894\/0470\/3007\/files\/0819564524-0.jpg?v=1785517593","url":"https:\/\/www.aspenbookco.com\/products\/notebook-of-a-return-to-the-native-land-wesleyan-poetry-series","provider":"Aspen Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}