Return to My Native Land Selby Wynn Schwartz A stunning work of enquiry

A stunning work of enquiry and eloquence

das Ziel – das »neunte Königreich« ist Mary gänzlich unbekannt

witnesses to the past and guides for the future

was anderen verborgen bleibt

Sie sinkt in den roten Plüschsitz

Return to My Native Land Selby Wynn Schwartz A stunning work of enquiryThis 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.