Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- 1 From island to metropolis: the making of a poet
- 2 Exploring racial selves: “Journal of a Homecoming”
- 3 Inventing a lyric voice: the forging of “Miracle Weapons”
- 4 Lyric registers: from “Sun Cut Throat” to “Cadaster”
- 5 The turn to poetic drama
- 6 The return to lyric: “me, laminaria …”
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- 1 From island to metropolis: the making of a poet
- 2 Exploring racial selves: “Journal of a Homecoming”
- 3 Inventing a lyric voice: the forging of “Miracle Weapons”
- 4 Lyric registers: from “Sun Cut Throat” to “Cadaster”
- 5 The turn to poetic drama
- 6 The return to lyric: “me, laminaria …”
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Aimé Césaire , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997