...Gregson Davis This essay revisits the vexed question of Aimé Césaire's poetics in relation to the choice of the language and style of his signature prose-poem, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal . It seeks to reframe the issue in terms of the ancient Greco-Roman concept of “levels of style...

..., essais et discours (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Présence Africaine) reorganizes and reorients the study of Césaire's principal texts, especially the Cahier d'un retour au pays natal . Arnold's prefaces in that volume and in his edition of The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return...

... . “Césaire's Notebook as Palimpsest: The Text before, during, and after World War II.” Research in African Literatures 35 , no. 3 : 133 – 40 . Arnold A. James . 2008 . “Beyond Postcolonial Césaire: Reading Cahier d'un retour au pays natal Historically.” Forum for Modern Language Studies 44...

... References Arnold A. James . 1981 . Modernism and Negritude: The Poetry and Poetics of Aimé Césaire . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Arnold A. James . 2008 . “Beyond Postcolonial Césaire: Reading Cahier d'un retour au pays natal Historically.” Forum for Modern Language...

... for investigating the complex connotations of Césaire’s version of négritude remains his lengthy prose-poem Cahier d’un retour au pays natal, which now occupies a deservedly exalted position in the canon of twentieth-century letters. Several of the essays in this issue approach the (re)interpretation...

... Discourse on Colonialism (1972). Here Césaire condenses into the fgure of the proletarian the same damned, apocalyptical, and redemptive mission that characterized Négritude in Cahiers d’un retour au pays natal: “The salvation of Europe is not a matter of revolution in methods. It is a mat- ter...

... of négritude in his 1995 Miami speech but also by the character of his lead- ing salvo, his open-ended Cahier d’un retour au pays natal (Notebook of a Return to the Native Land), which, as Natalie Melas (2009) has emphasized, consistently, yet adaptively, provisioned him with the archetype for his politi...

... of the Notebook, see Lilian Pestre de Almeida, “Les versions successives du Cahier d’un retour au pays natal,” Césaire 70, ed. A. James Arnold, M. a M. Ngal, and Martin Steins (Paris: Silex, 1984), 35–90; and A. James Arnold, Modernism and Négritude: The Poetry and Poetics of Aimé...

... and the strong desire of colonized people to be assimilated, which both Suzanne Césaire and Fanon problematize. Walker uses “teratoid” to translate the adjective tératique, which is also found in Aimé Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal. Tératique is also given as “teratical...