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