Cahier d'un retour au pays natal
Cahier d'un retour au pays natal ( 1939 ) , variously translated as Notebook of a Return to My Native Land , Return to My Native Land , or Journal of a Homecoming , is a book-length poem by Martinican writer Aimé Césaire , considered his masterwork , that mixes poetry and prose to express his thoughts on the cultural identity of black Africans in a colonial setting . 
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