Return to My Native Land

Aimé Césaire; John Berger (Translator); Anna Bostock (Translator)

'We shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout.' This blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the negritude 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 slave...