We shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout.’
This blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the n?gritude movement became a rallying cry for decolonisation when it appeared in 1939. Following one man’s 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 monument of this time’ Andr? Breton