This monumental, three-part study introduces audiences to the celebrated Martinican author who coined the term “négritude” and launched the movement called the “Great Black Cry”. Euzhan weaves Césaire’s life and poetry into a vast tapestry featuring many of the most important world-renowned artistic and intellectual figures of the past six decades. André Breton, the high priest of surrealism, described Césaire as “a black man who embodies not simply the black race but all mankind, who will remain for me the prototype of human dignity.”