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

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.