Corps Perdu — Poésie (1950)

Authors : Aimé Césaire — Poète, dramaturge et homme politique martiniquais

Genres : poésie

Original language : francais

Editions

  • , 1950 en

Description

Poetic collection by Aimé Césaire published in 1950 by Éditions Fragrance in Paris, with engravings by Pablo Picasso. Corps Perdu marks an evolution in Césaire’s poetry: the author explores the wounds of the racialized body and the fractures of the colonized consciousness. The title refers to a dispossessed body, torn from its land and its history. The work constitutes a link between the first generation of poems (Cahier, Armes miraculeuses) and the denser, more fragmented language of the Ferrements.

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