Return to My Native Land - Aime Cesaire digital culture the space surrounding a cup

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Return to My Native Land - Aime Cesaire digital culture the space surrounding a cupWe shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout. This blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the ngritude movement became a rallying cry for decolonisation when it appeared in 1939. Following one mans return from Europe to his homeland of Martinique, it is a reckoning with the trauma of slavery and exploitation, and a triumphant anthem for Black identity, one which reclaims and remakes language itself. Nothing less than the greatest lyrical