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Solar Throat Slashed: The Unexpurgated 1948 Edition (Wesleyan Poetry Series) Hardcover - 2011

by Césaire, Aimé


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The only bilingual edition of this radically original collection

Soleil cou coup (Solar Throat Slashed) is Aim Csaire's most explosive collection of poetry. Animistically dense, charged with eroticism and blasphemy, and imbued with an African and Vodun spirituality, this book takes the French surrealist adventure to new heights and depths. A Csaire poem is an intersection at which metaphoric traceries create historically aware nexuses of thought and experience, jagged solidarity, apocalyptic surgery, and solar dynamite. The original 1948 French edition of Soleil cou coup has a dense magico-religious frame of reference. In the late 1950s, Csaire was increasingly politically focused and seeking a wider audience, when he, in effect, gelded the 1948 text--eliminating 31 of the 72 poems, and editing another 29. Until now, only the revised 1961 edition, called Cadastre, has been translated. The revised text lacks the radical originality of Soleil cou coup. This Wesleyan edition presents all the original poems en face with the new English translations. Includes an introduction by A. James Arnold and notes by Clayton Eshleman.

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  • Title Solar Throat Slashed: The Unexpurgated 1948 Edition (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
  • Author Césaire, Aimé
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Bilingual
  • Pages 183
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wesleyan, Middletown, CT, U.S.A.
  • Date 2011-07
  • Features Dust Cover, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780819570703
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: French

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Citations

  • Choice, 11/01/2011, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 06/15/2011, Page 93

About the author

AIM CSAIRE (1913 - 2008) was best known as the co-creator of the concept of ngritude. A. JAMES ARNOLD is an emeritus professor of French at the University of Virginia. He is the lead editor of Csaire's complete literary works in French (in progress) and author of Modernism and Negritude: The Poetry and Poetics of Aim Csaire. CLAYTON ESHLEMAN is a professor emeritus at Eastern Michigan University and the foremost American translator of Aim Csaire. He is the author of The Grindstone of Rapport / A Clayton Eshleman Reader and translator of The Complete Poetry of Csar Vallejo.
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