ISBN 9781905422944 | 1905422946 Textbooks - "A Season in the Congo SB&The French List" by Aime Cesaire Cesaire Aime Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Translator Diagne Souleymane Bachir INT Aime Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Trn Diagne Souleymane Bachir Int

Authors: Aime Cesaire - Cesaire - Aime / Spivak - Gayatri Chakravorty (Translator) / Diagne - Soule…
ISBN 10: 1905422946
ISBN 13: 9781905422944
Release: December 15, 2010
Format: Hardcover (158 pages)
List Price: $21.95
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Tags: History, Africa, Central Africa,

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This play by renowned poet and political activist Aime Césaire recounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo Republic and an African nationalist hero. A Season in the Congo follows Lumumba’s efforts to free the Congolese from Belgian rule and the political struggles that led to his assassination in 1961. Césaire powerfully depicts Lumumba as a sympathetic, Christ-like figure whose conscious martyrdom reflects his self-sacrificing humanity and commitment to pan-Africanism. Born in Martinique and educated in Paris, Césaire was a revolutionary artist and lifelong political activist, who founded the Martinique Independent Revolution Party. Césaire’s ardent personal opposition to Western imperialism and racism fuels both his profound sympathy for Lumumba and the emotional strength of A Season in the Congo. Now rendered in a lyrical translation by distinguished scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Césaire’s play will find a new audience of readers interested in world literature and the vestiges of European colonialism.

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A Season in the Congo (SB-The French List)