Aime Cesaire : Inventor of Souls

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Aim CsaireInventor of Souls\nAuthor(s): Jane Hiddleston\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509549771, 978-1509549771\nSynopsis\nAim Csaire is arguably the greatest Caribbean literary writer in history. Best known for his incendiary epic poem Notebook of a Return to My Native Land, Csaire reinvented black culture by conceiving 'ngritude' as a dynamic and continuous process of self-creation.\n\n In this essential new account of his life and work, Jane Hiddleston introduces readers to Csaire's unique poetic voice and to his role as a figurehead for intellectuals pursuing freedom and equality for black people. Csaire was deeply immersed in the political life of his native Martinique for over fifty years: as Mayor of Fort-de-France and Deputy at the French National Assembly, he called for the liberation of oppressed people at home and abroad, while celebrating black creativity and self-invention to resist a history of.