Term coined in 1930s Poets from Martinique Senegal French Guiana Reaction against European colonization of Africa Reaction against the legacy of cultural racism Focus on upholding African cultural roots ID: 389503
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Négritude
Term coined in 1930’s
Poets from Martinique, Senegal, French Guiana
Reaction against European colonization of Africa
Reaction against the legacy of cultural racism
Focus on upholding African cultural rootsSlide2Slide3
Aimé
Fernand
Césaire
Video from
Democracy Now!
Born in Martinique
Studied in Paris
Teacher in Martinique
Elected as a mayorSlide4
Mississipi
By
Aimé
Césaire (translated from the French by A. James Arnold and Clayton
Eshleman)
Too bad for you men who don’t notice that my eyes rememberslings and black flagswhich murder with each blink of my
Mississipi
lashes
Too bad for you men who do not see who do not see anything
not even the gorgeous railway signals formed under my eyelids by the black and red discs
of the coral snake that my munificence coils in my Mississipi tears
Too bad for you men who do not see that in the depth of the reticule where chance has
deposited our
Mississipi
eyes
there waits a buffalo sunk to the very hilt of the swamp’s eyes
Too bad for you men who do not see that you cannot stop me from building to his fill
egg-headed islands of flagrant sky
under the calm ferocity of the immense geranium of our sun.Slide5
Léopold
Sédar
Senghor (1906-2001)
Born in Senegal
Educated in Paris
Friend of
Aimé
Césaire
Served in French Army during WW2 – spent 18 mo. in German prison camp
Represented Senegal in French National Assembly
Led Senegal’s Independence movement in 1960
1
st
democratically elected president of Senegal – held presidency for 20 yearsSlide6Slide7
Léon
Damas
(1912-1978)
From
“Pigments” (1937)Slide8
Guy
Tirolien
(1917-1988)
From Guadeloupe
Worked as Colonial Administrator in Africa
Taken as prisoner during WW2 with Léopold Senghor
Represented United Nations in Africa
1943 poem: “
Prière
d’un petit enfant
nègre
”
“Prayer of a Small Negro Child”