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Series title
Critical South
The publication of this series was made possible with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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Aimé Césaire, Resolutely Black
Resolutely Black
Conversations with Françoise Vergès
Aimé Césaire
Translated by Matthew B. Smith
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First published in French as Nègre je suis, nègre je resterai: Entretiens avec Françoise Vergès, © Albin Michel, 2005
This English edition © Polity Press, 2020
Excerpt from Aimé Césaire’s The Tragedy of King Christophe reproduced by kind permission of Northwestern University Press and Présence Africaine Éditions. Translation copyright © 2015 by Paul Breslin and Rachel Ney. Translation published 2015 by Northwestern University Press. Originally published in French under the title La tragédie du roi Christophe. Copyright © 1963 by Présence Africaine Éditions. All rights reserved.
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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-3714-3
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Names: Césaire, Aimé, interviewer. | Vergès, Françoise, 1952- interviewee. | Smith, Matthew B., translator.
Title: Resolutely black : conversations with Françoise Vergès / Aimé Césaire ; translated by Matthew B. Smith.
Other titles: Nègre je suis, nègre je resterai. English
Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2020. | Series: Critical South | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Aimé Césaire’s work is foundational for colonial and postcolonial thought. In this unique volume, his responses to Françoise Vergès’ questions range over the origins of his political activism, the legacies of slavery and colonialism, the question of reparation for slavery and the problems of marrying literature to politics”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019029720 (print) | LCCN 2019029721 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509537143 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509537150 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509537167 (epub) | ISBN 9781509539307 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Césaire, Aimé--Interviews. | Authors, Martinican--20th century--Interviews. | Negritude (Literary movement) | Postcolonialism.
Classification: LCC PQ3949.C44 Z4613 2020 (print) | LCC PQ3949.C44 (ebook) | DDC 841/.914--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019029720
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