The MA in Creative
Writing presents a reading of
sections of Aimé Césaire's Notebook
of a Return to My Native Land read by Denis Hirson,
Kabelo Mofokeng, Robert Berold, and others. Followed by discussion.
All interested are most
welcome.
Monday 11 August 5.30pm
ISEA/St Peters Building
[next to Eden Grove]
The 60 page poem Cahier
d'un retour au pays natal (Notebook of a Return to
My Native Land) was published
in 1939 when the poet was only 26 years old, and
has been admirably
translated. It is one of the great poems of the 20th Century,
starting with a lyrical
description of Césaire's birthplace in Martinique's slums, and
building into an unforgettable controlled rage against
colonialism.
