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Essays in Idleness is a constantly surprising work that ranges across the spectrum of human experience

Carina Herring

recounting lives of rebellion

Henry David Thoreau würdigte ihn ebenso wie Wladimir Putin

Return to My Native Land toxic swamp Carrington abandoned familyThis blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the ngritude 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.