A Tempest - (Tcg Translations) by Aimé Césaire (Paperback)

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About the Book A bestselling adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest , based in contemporary Caribbean society. Book Synopsis "The weapon of poetry may be Césaire's greatest gift to a modern world still searching for freedom. As one of the last truly great 'universalists' of the twentieth century, he has had a hand in shaping or critiquing many of the major ideologies and movements of the modern world--Marxism, nationalism, Pan-Africanism and fascism, among others. All of these ideas are rooted in notions of progress, all are products of modernity, and all fall short when it comes to envisioning a genuinely emancipatory future. Césaire must have known this, which is why more than half a cen…