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The Mouth of Calamities

Musab Younis: Césaire’s Reversals, 5 December 2024

Return to My Native Land 
by Aimé Césaire, translated by John Berger and Anna Bostock.
Penguin, 65 pp., £10.99, June, 978 0 241 53539 4
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. . . . . . And the Dogs Were Silent 
by Aimé Césaire, translated by Alex Gil.
Duke, 298 pp., £22.99, August, 978 1 4780 3064 5
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Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits 
by Jason Allen-Paisant.
Oxford, 160 pp., £70, February, 978 0 19 286722 3
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... to be read rather than performed – in 1946. The original version was discovered by the scholar Alex Gil fifteen years ago in a provincial archive in France. Gil’s superb translation adds a formidable new work to Césaire’s corpus.The play centres on Toussaint Louverture, the leading figure of the Haitian ...

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