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NegritudeLiterary movement of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. It began among French-speaking African and Caribbean writers living in Paris as a protest against French colonial rule and the policy of assimilation. Its leading figures—Léopold Senghor of Senegal, Aimé Césaire of Martinique, and Léon Damas (1912–78) of French Guiana—began to examine Western values critically and to reassess African culture. The group believed that the value and dignity of African traditions and peoples must be asserted, that Africans must look to their own heritage for values and traditions, and that writers should use African subject matter and poetic traditions. The movement faded in the early 1960s after its objectives had been achieved in most African countries. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The poets of Negritude, Aime Cesaire in particular, and his classic work, Return to My Native Land, had a big impact on me. There is important work coming out of Nigeria and South Africa, for instance, and there are active scholars who are linked historically to the defenders of Negritude. Complete Poems is a volume that no student of the Harlem Renaissance, the leftist interwar period, dissident sexuality studies, the Catholic worker movement, or negritude, diaspora, and Caribbean language literature can live without. |
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