Notebook of a Return to the Native Land Condition:Good Ian McKellen and all the

Ian McKellen and all the principal cast and filmmakers

their more proximate roots in 1960s counter-culture

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Josie Cormier

Notebook of a Return to the Native Land Condition:Good Ian McKellen and all theAime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. The long poem was the beginning of Cesaire's quest for negritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. With its emphasis on unusual juxtapositions of object and metaphor, manipulation of language into puns and neologisms, and rhythm, Cesaire considered his style a "beneficial madness" that could "break into the