{"product_id":"return-to-my-native-land-by-aime-cesaire","title":"Return to My Native Land, by Aime Cesaire","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cspan\u003e'The undisputed masterpiece of négritude and a poetic milestone of anti-colonialism'  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'We shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the négritude movement became a rallying cry for decolonisation when it appeared in 1939. Following one man's return from Europe to his homeland of Martinique, it is a reckoning with the trauma of slavery and exploitation, and a triumphant anthem for Black identity, one which reclaims and remakes language itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of this time' André Breton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A Césaire poem explodes and whirls about itself like a rocket, suns burst forth whirling and exploding' Jean-Paul Sartre\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'The most influential Francophone Caribbean writer of his generation'  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIndependent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45157422792962,"sku":"9780241535394","price":295.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1160\/4950\/files\/returntomynativeland.jpg?v=1717144804","url":"https:\/\/bridgebooks.co.za\/products\/return-to-my-native-land-by-aime-cesaire","provider":"Bridge Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}