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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| Cahier d’un retour au pays natal | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
French-language poem
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literary work ⓘ long poem ⓘ poem ⓘ |
| author | Aimé Césaire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralFigure | Black Caribbean subject ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Martinique NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationPlace | Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1939 ⓘ |
| firstPublisher | Volontés NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| form |
free verse
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prose poem ⓘ |
| genre |
anti-colonial literature
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lyric poetry ⓘ political poetry ⓘ |
| influenced |
Black Atlantic studies
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Francophone African poetry ⓘ postcolonial literature ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Négritude
NERFINISHED
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Surrealism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryTechnique |
invective
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lyrical repetition ⓘ mythic allusion ⓘ surrealist imagery ⓘ |
| movement | Négritude NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| period | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| setting |
Martinique
NERFINISHED
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colonial Caribbean ⓘ |
| significance |
foundational text of the Négritude movement
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key text of anti-colonial thought ⓘ major work of Francophone Caribbean literature ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
collective Black liberation
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experience of colonial domination ⓘ return to homeland ⓘ |
| theme |
Black consciousness
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alienation ⓘ anti-colonialism ⓘ critique of colonialism ⓘ decolonization of the mind ⓘ diaspora ⓘ racial identity ⓘ revalorization of African heritage ⓘ revolt ⓘ |
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Cahier d’un retour au pays natal