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Notebook of a Return to My Native Land

Also Known As Cahier d'un retour au pays natal

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@misc{literatureatlas-notebook-of-a-return-to-my-native-land,
  author = {Literature Atlas},
  title = {Notebook of a Return to My Native Land},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/notebook-of-a-return-to-my-native-land},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

A book-length poem by the Martinican writer Aime Cesaire, written originally in French as Cahier d'un retour au pays natal and first published in 1939, with revised editions in 1947 and 1956. Blending poetry and prose, it explores Black African and Caribbean cultural identity under colonialism and is considered Cesaire's masterwork and a founding text of the Negritude movement.

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from 1939 1

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Aime Cesaire

Source Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wikipedia)

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1. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wikipedia)

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Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (first published in 1939, with two revised editions in 1947 and a final edition in 1956)...is a book-length poem by Martinican writer Aime Cesaire.

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1. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wikipedia)

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Cahier d'un retour au pays natal...is a book-length poem by Martinican writer Aime Cesaire.

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