Césaire, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal.
The fundamental text of the Negritude generation.
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- Condition: very good, clean, minimal signs of wear.
Aimé Césaire was born in Basse Pointe in Martinique on 26 June 1913 to a father who was a schoolteacher and a mother who was a dressmaker. He was eighteen years old when he arrived in Paris in 1931, after passing both the baccalaureate and the scholarship competition in Fort-de-France. He belonged to the petty bourgeoisie of civil servants. However, through a distant ancestor, the Césaire family had participated in political and racial struggles: one Césaire, during the July monarchy, was sentenced to death in 1833. The grandfather, a schoolteacher and then a teacher, belonged to the first generation of Schoelcherists; the father perpetuated a Voltairean spirit, and read Hugo. He was the only black student in his Hypokhâgne class and met Senghor. In 1935, he entered the Normale and spent four years there in a quasi-mystical crisis. The founding text of negritude, which today is associated with racial and political struggles, was born of a spiritual, personal and subjective experience. Césaire wrote his Notebook while he was still in Europe, on the boat that took him back to Martinique.
| Condition | Used - Very Good |
|---|---|
| Language | France |
| Illustrated | No |
| Publicaton Date | Jan 1, 1983 |
| Year | 1983 |
| Author / Cartographer / Photographer | Cesaire Aime |
| Editor | Présence Africaine |
| First edition | No |
| Signed edition | No |
| Signed binding | No |
| Armorial binding | No |
| Binding / Format | Softcover |
| Size | 19 x 14 cm |
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