Books by Aimé Césaire
“This poem is probably my favourite work of literature that I’ve ever read. Césaire, as a Martiniquan French subject, went to France for his schooling and at the end of his studies was on vacation in the former Yugoslavia, looking out at the Adriatic Sea. He had the Homeric epics, particularly The Odyssey, in mind, but was also drawn back over the waves of imaginary waters to his homeland in the Caribbean. He wrote it upon his return to Martinique. So it’s a book-length poem that tells the story of what it feels like, as a French educated subject, to return home both with new eyes and eyes that have a deeply intimate relationship with the Caribbean.” Read more...
The Best Postcolonial Literature
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, Literary Scholar
Interviews where books by Aimé Césaire were recommended
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Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
by Aimé Césaire -
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A Dying Colonialism
by Frantz Fanon -
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I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
by Maryse Condé -
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Maps: A Novel
by Nuruddin Farah -
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Can the Subaltern Speak?: Reflections on the History of an Idea
ed. Rosalind Morris, original essay by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
The Best Postcolonial Literature, recommended by Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
The Best Postcolonial Literature, recommended by Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
Postcolonial literature brings together writings from formerly colonised territories, allowing commonalities across disparate cultures to be identified and examined. Here, the University of Toronto academic Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb recommends five key works that explore philosophical and political questions through allegory, personal reflection and powerful polemic.
