The Concept of Negritude in the Poetry of Leopold Sedar Senghor

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400867134
Total Pages : 317 pages
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Book Synopsis The Concept of Negritude in the Poetry of Leopold Sedar Senghor by : Sylvia Washington Ba

Download or read book The Concept of Negritude in the Poetry of Leopold Sedar Senghor written by Sylvia Washington Ba and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negritude has been defined by Léopold Sédar Senghor as "the sum of the cultural values of the black world as they are expressed in the life, the institutions, and the works of black men." Sylvia Washington Bâ analyzes Senghor's poetry to show how the concept of negritude infuses it at every level. A biographical sketch describes his childhood in Senegal, his distinguished academic career in France, and his election as President of Senegal. Themes of alienation and exile pervade Senghor's poetry, but it was by the opposition of his sensitivity and values to those of Europe that he was able to formulate his credo. Its key theme, and the supreme value of black African civilization, is the concept of life forces, which are not attributes or accidents of being, but the very essence of being. Life is an essentially dynamic mode of being for the black African, and it has been Senghor's achievement to communicate African intensity and vitality through his use of the nuances, subtleties, and sonorities of the French language. In the final chapter Sylvia Washington Bâ discusses the future of Senghor's belief that the black man's culture should be recognized as valid not simply as a matter of human justice, but because the values of negritude could be instrumental in the reintegration of positive values into western civilization and the reorientation of contemporary man toward life and love. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Negritude Poets

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Publisher : New York : Viking Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Negritude Poets by : Ellen Conroy Kennedy

Download or read book The Negritude Poets written by Ellen Conroy Kennedy and published by New York : Viking Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonized black people the world over have long had to express themselves in the tongue of the colonizer. In the case of the French language, the influence stretched from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, with its obvious center situated in Africa. The present volume, which is the fruit of over a decade's dedicated effort, gathers together, in English translation, twenty-seven poets, associated with that cultural and intellectual movement which since the close of World War II has come to be known as "negritude". The term "negritude" was coined by Aimé Césaire in his long poem "Notes on a Return to the Native Land", which was published in France in 1944 ... While the present volume, for historical and cultural reasons, has a special significance, it also is, and should be taken as, an anthology of poetry. (Book jacket).

Modernism and Negritude

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Modernism and Negritude by : Albert James Arnold

Download or read book Modernism and Negritude written by Albert James Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Arnold here presents in its political and culture context the work of the greatest visionary poet writing in French since the Romantic period. Aimé Césaire's surrealism is seen as subverting, in the name of black experience, the very European high moderism he assimilated and employed. -- Amazon.com.

The Negritude Movement

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Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498511368
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis The Negritude Movement by : Reiland Rabaka

Download or read book The Negritude Movement written by Reiland Rabaka and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Negritude Movement provides readers with not only an intellectual history of the Negritude Movement but also its prehistory (W.E.B. Du Bois, the New Negro Movement, and the Harlem Renaissance) and its posthistory (Frantz Fanon and the evolution of Fanonism). By viewing Negritude as an “insurgent idea” (to invoke this book’s intentionally incendiary subtitle), as opposed to merely a form of poetics and aesthetics, The Negritude Movement explores Negritude as a “traveling theory” (à la Edward Said’s concept) that consistently crisscrossed the Atlantic Ocean in the twentieth century: from Harlem to Haiti, Haiti to Paris, Paris to Martinique, Martinique to Senegal, and on and on ad infinitum. The Negritude Movement maps the movements of proto-Negritude concepts from Du Bois’s discourse in The Souls of Black Folk through to post-Negritude concepts in Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth. Utilizing Negritude as a conceptual framework to, on the one hand, explore the Africana intellectual tradition in the twentieth century, and, on the other hand, demonstrate discursive continuity between Du Bois and Fanon, as well as the Harlem Renaissance and Negritude Movement, The Negritude Movement ultimately accents what Negritude contributed to arguably its greatest intellectual heir, Frantz Fanon, and the development of his distinct critical theory, Fanonism. Rabaka argues that if Fanon and Fanonism remain relevant in the twenty-first century, then, to a certain extent, Negritude remains relevant in the twenty-first century.

Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231538642
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print by : Carrie Noland

Download or read book Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print written by Carrie Noland and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carrie Noland approaches Negritude as an experimental, text-based poetic movement developed by diasporic authors of African descent through the means of modernist print culture. Engaging primarily the works of Aimé Césaire and Léon-Gontran Damas, Noland shows how the demands of print culture alter the personal voice of each author, transforming an empirical subjectivity into a hybrid, textual entity that she names, after Theodor Adorno, an "aesthetic subjectivity." This aesthetic subjectivity, transmitted by the words on the page, must be actualized—performed, reiterated, and created anew—by each reader, at each occasion of reading. Lyric writing and lyric reading therefore attenuate the link between author and phenomenalized voice. Yet the Negritude poem insists upon its connection to lived experience even as it emphasizes its printed form. Ironically, a purely formalist reading would have to ignore the ways formal—and not merely thematic—elements point toward the poem's own conditions of emergence. Blending archival research on the historical context of Negritude with theories of the lyric "voice," Noland argues that Negritude poems present a challenge to both form-based (deconstructive) theories and identity-based theories of poetic representation. Through close readings, she reveals that the racialization of the author places pressure on a lyric regime of interpretation, obliging us to reconceptualize the relation of author to text in poetries of the first person.

Lyric and Dramatic Poetry, 1946-82

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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813912448
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (124 download)

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Book Synopsis Lyric and Dramatic Poetry, 1946-82 by : Aimé Césaire

Download or read book Lyric and Dramatic Poetry, 1946-82 written by Aimé Césaire and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: over emergent literature and will show him to be a major figure in the conflict between tradition and contemporary cultural identity.

Negritude Women

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816636808
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (368 download)

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Book Synopsis Negritude Women by : T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Download or read book Negritude Women written by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Negritude movement, which signaled the awakening of a pan-African consciousness among black French intellectuals, has been understood almost exclusively in terms of the contributions of its male founders: Aime Cesaire, Leopold Sedar Senghor, and Leon G. Damas. This masculine genealogy has completely overshadowed the central role played by French-speaking black women in its creation and evolution. In Negritude Women, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting offers a long-overdue corrective, revealing the contributions made by four women -- Suzanne Lacascade, Jane and Paulette Nardal, and Suzanne Roussy-Cesaire -- who were not merely integral to the success of the movement, but often in its vanguard. Through such disparate tactics as Lacascade's use of Creole expressions in her French prose writings, the literary salon and journal founded by the Martinique-born Nardal sisters, and Roussy-Cesaire's revolutionary blend of surrealism and Negritude in the pages of Tropiques, the journal she founded with her husband, these four remarkable women made vital contributions. In exploring their influence on the development of themes central to Negritude -- black humanism, the affirmation of black peoples and their cultures, and the rehabilitation of Africa -- Sharpley-Whiting provides the movement's first genuinely inclusive history.

Dialogues of Negritude

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
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Book Synopsis Dialogues of Negritude by : Jean Baptiste Popeau

Download or read book Dialogues of Negritude written by Jean Baptiste Popeau and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new offering, Popeau demonstrates that Negritude, a literary and philosophical movement inaugurated in the 1930s by a group of Blacks studying in Paris, is the manifestation of a dialogue between Blacks and Western culture and an internal dialogue amongst Blacks themselves. This movement had a profound influence on the Black movements which followed in the 1960s and '70s. When the Black Panthers shouted "Black is beautiful" they were echoing the "It is good and beautiful to be Black" statement of the 1930s Negritude movement. The first two chapters of the book examine the basic structure and content of the discourse about Blacks in Euro-American culture including Hegel's ideological pronouncements about Africa and the Western concept of the Black in literature. The second part of the book examines Negritude as a counter-discourse to the discourse on the Negro in Western culture by focusing on the works of Aimé Césaire and Léopold Sédar Senghor, the two principal founders of Negritude. The study aims to discuss the manifestation of Negritude post-1930s through an examination of some works of James Baldwin and Richard Wright. The ideas of Wilson Harris, the West Indian writer, are discussed as a counter to the ideology of Negritude. This study aims to provide the student of Black literature with the knowledge necessary to place one of the most important formative movements of Black literature within its cultural perspective.

The Collected Poetry

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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813918327
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (183 download)

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Book Synopsis The Collected Poetry by : Léopold Sédar Senghor

Download or read book The Collected Poetry written by Léopold Sédar Senghor and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leopold Sedar Senghor was not only president of the Republic of Senegal from 1960 to 1981, he is also Africa's most famous poet. A cofounder of the Negritude cultural movement, he is recognized as one of the most significant figures in African literature. This bilingual edition of Senghor's complete poems made his work available for the first time to English-speaking audiences. His poetry, alive with sensual imagery, contrasts the lushness and wonder of Africa's past with the alienation and loss associated with assimilation into European culture. Translator Melvin Dixon places Senghor's writing in historical persepctive by relating it to both his political involvement and his intellectual development.

Selected Poems of Léopold Sédar Senghor

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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521291118
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (911 download)

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Book Synopsis Selected Poems of Léopold Sédar Senghor by : Léopold Sédar Senghor

Download or read book Selected Poems of Léopold Sédar Senghor written by Léopold Sédar Senghor and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1977-09 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Return to My Native Land

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0241585503
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (415 download)

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Book Synopsis Return to My Native Land by : Aimé Césaire

Download or read book Return to My Native Land written by Aimé Césaire and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The undisputed masterpiece of négritude and a poetic milestone of anti-colonialism' Guardian 'We shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout.' This blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the négritude 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. 'Nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of this time' André Breton 'A Césaire poem explodes and whirls about itself like a rocket, suns burst forth whirling and exploding' Jean-Paul Sartre 'The most influential Francophone Caribbean writer of his generation' Independent Translated by John Berger and Anna Bostock

Freedom Time

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822375796
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis Freedom Time by : Gary Wilder

Download or read book Freedom Time written by Gary Wilder and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-14 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aimé Césaire (Martinique) and Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promoted self-determination without state sovereignty. As politicians, public intellectuals, and poets they struggled to transform imperial France into a democratic federation, with former colonies as autonomous members of a transcontinental polity. In so doing, they revitalized past but unrealized political projects and anticipated impossible futures by acting as if they had already arrived. Refusing to reduce colonial emancipation to national independence, they regarded decolonization as an opportunity to remake the world, reconcile peoples, and realize humanity’s potential. Emphasizing the link between politics and aesthetics, Gary Wilder reads Césaire and Senghor as pragmatic utopians, situated humanists, and concrete cosmopolitans whose postwar insights can illuminate current debates about self-management, postnational politics, and planetary solidarity. Freedom Time invites scholars to decolonize intellectual history and globalize critical theory, to analyze the temporal dimensions of political life, and to question the territorialist assumptions of contemporary historiography.

Beyond Negritude

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438429487
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis Beyond Negritude by : Paulette Nardal

Download or read book Beyond Negritude written by Paulette Nardal and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key text never before in English by central figure of the Negritude movement.

The Changing Face of Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739125532
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis The Changing Face of Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity by : Mamadou Badiane

Download or read book The Changing Face of Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity written by Mamadou Badiane and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Changing Face of Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity: Negrismo and N gritude looks primarily at Negrismo and N gritude, two literary movements that appeared in the Francophone and Hispanic Caribbean as well as in Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century. It draws on speeches and manifestos, and use cultural studies to contextualize ideas. It poses the bases of both movements in the Caribbean and in Africa, and lays out the literary antecedents that influenced or shaped both movements. This book examines the search for cultural identity through the poetry of Nicolas Guill n, Manuel del Cabral, and Pal s Matos. This search is extended to the N gritude movement through the poems of L opold Senghor, L on-Gontran Damas, and Aim C saire. Mamadou Badiane further discusses the under-represented N gritude women writers who were silenced by their male counterparts during the first half of the twentieth century. Ultimately, this is a book on Caribbean cultural identity that shows it in a slippery and fluctuating zone. By demonstrating that while the founders of the N gritude movement both identified themselves as descendants of Africans and were proud to proclaim their African heritage, the members of the Antillanit and Cr olit movements see themselves as a product of miscegenation between different cultures.

Poems for the Millennium, Volume Two

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520208641
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Poems for the Millennium, Volume Two by : Jerome Rothenberg

Download or read book Poems for the Millennium, Volume Two written by Jerome Rothenberg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Global anthology of twentieth-century poetry"--Back cover.

Négritude

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Book Synopsis Négritude by : Norman R. Shapiro

Download or read book Négritude written by Norman R. Shapiro and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Inequality of Human Races

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
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Download or read book The Inequality of Human Races written by Arthur comte de Gobineau and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: