Damas, Léon (lāôN` dämä`) (Léon-Gentran Damas), 1912–78, French poet, b. French Guiana. With Léopold Senghor Senghor, Léopold Sédar (lāôpôld` sādär` säNgôr`)
..... Click the link for more information. and Aimé Césaire Césaire, Aimé (ĕmā` sāzĕr`), 1913–, West Indian poet and essayist who writes in French.
..... Click the link for more information. he was one of the first adherents of négritude négritude (nĕg`rĭt
d', –ty
..... Click the link for more information. , a cultural movement emphasizing black consciousness. His poetry mirrors his intense personality; it is agitated and syncopated in syntax and graphic representation on the page. Anthologies of his verse include Black Label (1956) and Pigments (1960). His African Songs of Love, War, Grief, and Abuse (1961) contains brief verses sympathetically portraying Guianan village life. He also published an autobiographical work, Return to Guiana (1938).
..... Click the link for more information. and Aimé Césaire Césaire, Aimé (ĕmā` sāzĕr`), 1913–, West Indian poet and essayist who writes in French.
..... Click the link for more information. he was one of the first adherents of négritude négritude (nĕg`rĭt
d', –ty..... Click the link for more information. , a cultural movement emphasizing black consciousness. His poetry mirrors his intense personality; it is agitated and syncopated in syntax and graphic representation on the page. Anthologies of his verse include Black Label (1956) and Pigments (1960). His African Songs of Love, War, Grief, and Abuse (1961) contains brief verses sympathetically portraying Guianan village life. He also published an autobiographical work, Return to Guiana (1938).
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