Translation, French to English, of Aimé Césaire

Word Carver by Cynthia Rosi

Mar 6, 201941:34Arts

Herbert Ndeki II, a Cameroon native and American emigre, reads poems from Aimé Césaire's work Cahier D'Un Retour and analyses the translation choices. Aimé Césaire was born in 1913 and pioneered the concept of "blackness...

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