Journal of a Homecoming/Cahier d’un Retour au Pays Natal

Gregson Davis (Translator)

2017

Duke University Press

Originally published in 1939, Martinican author and statesman Aimé Césaire’s surrealist masterpiece “Cahier d’un Retour au Pays Natal” is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding text of the Négritude movement. This bilingual edition features a new authoritative translation, revised introduction, and extensive commentary, making it a magisterial edition of Césaire’s surrealist masterpiece.