In the canon
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
- Form
- Form Poem
- Year
- Year 1939
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 60
A poet returns to his colonised Caribbean island and turns its poverty, its history and his own rage into a volcanic declaration of Black identity and pride.
my negritude is neither tower nor cathedral, it takes root in the red flesh of the soil
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