Césaire, Aimé. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (downloadable pdf file)
This is a bilingual edition, with the French original and English translation printed on facing pages as a book. (This means that, when reading the pdf file, every other page will be in French.)
For our first day on Césaire’s Notebook, we will read pp. 35-55.
This 2nd pdf contains the endnotes to Eshleman and Smith’s translation of the Notebook. You may find the notes useful particularly for decoding obscure terms or historical references with which you might not be familiar.
Eshleman, Clayton and Annette Smith. “Introduction” (The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire) (1984), pp. 1-18 (stop at the end of Section 4) (downloadable pdf file)
Reading and Discussion Questions (downloadable in pdf form)
Reading and Discussion Questions (downloadable as a Word doc)