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POETRY / General

The Tragedy of King Christophe is recognised as the Martiniquan writer 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. Paul Breslin and Rachel Ney's translation includes an introduction and explanatory notes.

The twenty poems in this book, presented in French with facing English translations, have been chosen to illustrate fundamental aspects of Cesaire's thought, imagery, and style as these crystallized into a single, coherent system in the late 1940's and the 1950's. The work aims to assist both nonspecialist reader and scholar to a deeper comprehension of the poems and their formidable linguistic difficulties.

Aime Cesaire has been described by the Times Literary Supplement as likely to "figure alongside the Eliot-Pound-Yeats triumvirate that has dominated official poetic culture for more than fifty years." He was a cofounder and exponent of the concept of negritude and is a major spiritual, political, and literary figure.Cesaire has been read politically as a poet of revolutionary zeal since the 1960s. This collection, the only one in existence in ...

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La tempesta", l'ultima opera scritta da Shakespeare, viene trasformata da uno dallo scrittore caraibico, che ne ribalta completamente la prospettiva e, mostrandoci lo stesso mondo dell'isola colonizzata da Prospero, ci apre lo sguardo verso un mondo completamente diverso...

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 English, Discourse on Colonialism inspired a new generation engaged in the Civil Rights, Black Power, and anti-war movements and has sold more than 75, 000 copies to date.Aime Cesa...

9781905422944KurztextA Season in the Congo recounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo Republic and an African nationalist hero. The play follows Lumumba's efforts to free the Congolese from Belgian rule and the political struggles that led to his assassination in 1961. Césaire depicts Lumumba as a sympathetic Christlike figure whose conscious martyrdom reflects his selfsacrificing humanity and commitmen...

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Cesaire's masterpiece that reaches the powerful and overlooked aspects of black culture.

First TCG edition of this bestselling adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Tempest.

A collection of ten poems Cesaire published in 1949, in an edition including thirty-two etchings by Picasso.