The Negritude Poets: An Anthology of Translations from the FrenchEllen Conroy Kennedy Viking Press, 1975 - 284 pages Colonized black people the world over have long had to express themselves in the tongue of the colonizer. In the case of the French language, the influence stretched from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, with its obvious center situated in Africa. The present volume, which is the fruit of over a decade's dedicated effort, gathers together, in English translation, twenty-seven poets, associated with that cultural and intellectual movement which since the close of World War II has come to be known as "negritude". The term "negritude" was coined by Aimé Césaire in his long poem "Notes on a Return to the Native Land", which was published in France in 1944 ... While the present volume, for historical and cultural reasons, has a special significance, it also is, and should be taken as, an anthology of poetry. (Book jacket). |
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... dead and dying ears ; There I should lie annihilate and my dead heart would bless Oblivion - the shroud and envelope of happiness . -Translated by Jessie Redmond Fauset FRENCH GUIANA / MARTINIQUE ( 1887-1960 ) René Daran RENÉ 10 ...
... dead and dying ears ; There I should lie annihilate and my dead heart would bless Oblivion - the shroud and envelope of happiness . -Translated by Jessie Redmond Fauset FRENCH GUIANA / MARTINIQUE ( 1887-1960 ) René Daran RENÉ 10 ...
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... dead I know where they are buried Our millions of corpses I am accountable for their bones I am inhabited by cadavers Inhabited by the rattling of their dying I am a floodtide of afflictions Of cries of pus of coagulations I graze in ...
... dead I know where they are buried Our millions of corpses I am accountable for their bones I am inhabited by cadavers Inhabited by the rattling of their dying I am a floodtide of afflictions Of cries of pus of coagulations I graze in ...
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... dead are not dead . Listen to things More often than beings , Hear the voice of fire , Hear the voice of water . Listen in the wind , To the bush that is sighing : This is the breathing of ancestors , Who have not gone away Who are not ...
... dead are not dead . Listen to things More often than beings , Hear the voice of fire , Hear the voice of water . Listen in the wind , To the bush that is sighing : This is the breathing of ancestors , Who have not gone away Who are not ...
Table des matières
Oswald Durand 18401906 HAITI | 3 |
Oblivion | 10 |
Sacrifice | 16 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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