Solar Throat Slashed: The Unexpurgated 1948 Edition

Cesaire, Aime (Editor)/ Eshleman, Clayton (Editor)/ Arnold, A. James (Editor)/ Gates, Henry Louis (Contributor)

ISBN 10: 0819570702 / ISBN 13: 9780819570703

Verlag: Wesleyan Univ Pr, 2011

bilingual edition. 183 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0819570702

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Soleil cou coupé (Solar Throat Slashed) is Aimé Césaire’s most explosive collection of poetry. Animistically dense, charged with eroticism and blasphemy, and imbued with an African and Vodun spirituality, this book takes the French surrealist adventure to new heights and depths. A Césaire poem is an intersection at which metaphoric traceries create historically aware nexuses of thought and experience, jagged solidarity, apocalyptic surgery, and solar dynamite. The original 1948 French edition of Soleil cou coupé has a dense magico-religious frame of reference. In the late 1950s, Césaire was increasingly politically focused and seeking a wider audience, when he, in effect, gelded the 1948 text—eliminating 31 of the 72 poems, and editing another 29. Until now, only the revised 1961 edition, called Cadastre, has been translated. The revised text lacks the radical originality of Soleil cou coupé. This Wesleyan edition presents all the original poems en face with the new English translations. Includes an introduction by A. James Arnold and notes by Clayton Eshleman.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: AIME CESAIRE (1913-2008) was best known as the co-creator of the concept of negritude.
A. JAMES ARNOLD is an emeritus professor of French at the University of Virginia. He is the lead editor of Cesaire's complete literary works in French (in progress) and author of Modernism and Negritude: The Poetry and Poetics of Aime Cesaire.
CLAYTON ESHLEMAN is a professor emeritus at Eastern Michigan University and the foremost American translator of Aime Cesaire. He is the author of The Grindstone of Rapport / A Clayton Eshleman Reader and translator of The Complete Poetry of Cesar Vallejo.

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Titel: Solar Throat Slashed: The Unexpurgated 1948 ...
Verlag: Wesleyan Univ Pr
Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Brand New