Cahier d'un retour au pays natal

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Cahier d'un retour au pays natal is a seminal long poem by Aimé Césaire that powerfully articulates Black consciousness, anti-colonial revolt, and the foundations of the Négritude movement.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French-language poem
literary work
long poem
poem
author Aimé Césaire
centralFigure Black Caribbean subject
countryOfOrigin Martinique
firstPublicationPlace Paris
firstPublicationYear 1939
firstPublisher Volontés
linked to: Volonté
form free verse
prose poem
genre anti-colonial literature
lyric poetry
political poetry
influenced Black Atlantic studies
Francophone African poetry
postcolonial literature
language French
literaryMovement Négritude
linked to: Negritude

Surrealism
literaryTechnique invective
lyrical repetition
mythic allusion
surrealist imagery
movement Négritude
linked to: Negritude
narrativePerspective first person
period 20th-century literature
setting Martinique
colonial Caribbean
significance foundational text of the Négritude movement
key text of anti-colonial thought
major work of Francophone Caribbean literature
subjectMatter collective Black liberation
experience of colonial domination
return to homeland
theme Black consciousness
alienation
anti-colonialism
critique of colonialism
decolonization of the mind
diaspora
racial identity
revalorization of African heritage
revolt

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Negritude hasKeyWork Cahier d'un retour au pays natal
Aimé Césaire notableWork Cahier d’un retour au pays natal
linked to: Cahier d'un retour au pays natal