Forthcoming publication, July 2008
“Beyond Postcolonial Césaire: Reading Cahier d’un retour au pays natal Historically”, by A. James Arnold
Following the recent death of Aimé Césaire in Martinique, readers will be interested to see, in this summer’s General Issue (44:3), Professor A. James Arnold’s searching investigation of the metamorphoses of Cahier d’un retour au pays natal from its roots in surrealism through successive editions to a more pointedly political final version. In publishing this engaging, groundbreaking piece by an eminent Caribbeanist, FMLS is delighted to demonstrate the degree to which Césaire continues to inspire scholarship of the highest order in fields such as aesthetics, politics, identity and stylistics.